[Belgium] BeGeo - Volunteers wanted to present OSGeo and related activities.

[Dirk Frigne]

Dear list,

Gentle reminder to update the agenda of the BeGeo track.
I have to provide the temporary track to the BeGeo organizing comittee.
I will send this version, but we should try to finalize the agenda
before Februari, 9 when the program come's on-line

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18hpQWWeNLNOCxbxJR9HeNaeUptdOoNkxs4APq3U6hHM/edit#

Dirk

On 20-01-17 14:28, Dirk Frigne wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> OSGeo.be has the opportunity to oranise a 2.5 hour site track on the
> BeGeo conference. Last year during the first edition, there were > 1200
> visitors. This years there is a maximum of 2000 visitors in the Tour &
> Taxis environment in Brussels.
> 
> I attended the meeting of behalf of OSGeo.be for the preparation of
> BeGeo 2017. More info on following link:
> http://www.begeo.be/?knews=readEmail&id=6&e=16686&k=4
> 
> Date: March 16, 2017.
> 
> As OSGeo.be we engaged us to fill a track during the day. 2.5 hours in
> total of content.
> The idea is to promote open source, open data, OSGeo and a couple of
> OSGeo projects.
> 
> Next step is to prepare the programme. I have already some content, and
> a preliminary schema, but I still need some additional content, and
> volunteers who want to present the content. This is a great event to
> promote OSGeo to a more broad audience. We expect between 1000 and 2000
> visitors.
> 
> The website with the program should be ready begin of february, so here
> is my first draft.
> Please update me with new content, or you can even volunteer to help me
> drafting the content.
> 
> There are 4 blocks of content. 2 times 45 minutes, and 2 times half an hour.
> In total we have room for 10 presentations of 15 minutes.
> It should be good to have an alternative, if a speaker doesn’t show up,
> to fill an empty slot.
> 
> Block 1: 11:45 - 12:30        3 presentations of 15 minutes
> Block 2: 12:30 - 13:00        2 presentations of 15 minutes
> Block 3: 14:00 - 14:45        3 presentations of 15 minutes
> Block 4: 14:45 - 15:15        2 presentations of 15 minutes
> 
> I prepared an example of a schema[1] that we could present, but I need
> some volunteers to realise this event. The aim is to have Dutch and
> French presentations. PLease send me a mail if you want to help out.
> I already added some confirmed talks, and some idea's of talks to the
> schedule. We still have to find the speakers for a couple of these talks.
> 
> Deadline is end of the weekend. Then we have to send this out. Will be
> published february, 9 2017 on the beGoe website.
> 
> 
> 
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/18hpQWWeNLNOCxbxJR9HeNaeUptdOoNkxs4APq3U6hHM/edit#
> 
> PS.
> 
> I also have to send some information about our track to the organisers
> to publish on the website: (in dutch)
> Please help me to improve the summary. Published in the same document [1]
> 
> - Een mooie en aansprekende titel:  Oplossingen gebaseerd op Open Source
> voor het Geodomein - OSGeo helpt je op weg
> - De inleider(s) en de organisatie(s):  Johan Van de Wauw - presedent
> OSGeo.be
> Foto(s) van de inleiders:     Johan, can you provide a photo?
> Linkedin pagina van de inleider of als ze die niet hebben een korte
> biografie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanvdw
> Een korte beschrijving over de inhoud van de sessie
> OSGeo is een vereniging zonder winstgevend doel, die ijvert voor de
> verspreiding van open software, data en standaarden. OSGeo is wereldwijd
> actief en opereert via locale structuren, waarbij OSGeo.be de Belgische
> vertegenwoordiger is.
> Deze sessie geeft een overzicht van vrij beschikbare tools, data en
> software oplossingen die vrij en gratis ter beschikking zijn om je Geo
> problemen op te lossen. Er wordt een inzicht gegeven in OSGeo als
> organisatie, de producten die je kan gebruiken, hoe je kan bijdragen tot
> de communitywerking. Er worden voorbeelden gegeven hoe andere
> organisaties de overstap naar open source hebben gerealiseerd en
> voorbeelden van hoe de software te gebruiken.
> 
> 
> Links naar meer informatie over het thema: http://www.osgeo.org
> De doelgroep: iedereen die professioneel of educatief bezig is met de
> geosector en die geïnteresseerd is om meer te weten over open source en
> data alternatieven om zijn/haar doelstellingen te realiseren.
> 

-- 
Yours sincerely,


ir. Dirk Frigne
CEO @geosparc

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