[Board] FOSS4G-FR 2014

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Vincent,

This is great news about your plans for a FOSS4G-FR event.  My
experience is that the OSGeo-fr local chapter is very active, and I am
very happy to hear of these plans.  I also followed the progress of last
year's event (actually I was very impressed with the marketing/branding
done for that event, it was well done).  I am sure the FOSS4G-FR event
will be wonderful as well.  I also am happy to hear that Gérald will
keep the OSGeo Board uptodate with the progress of that event.

Let me or Gérald know if you need anything.  And congrats on this news!

Is there a twitter account to follow?

Also, don't be afraid to use any of the OSGeo infrastructure for this
event (foss4g.org or osgeo.org subdomain etc.).  Fire your requests onto
OSGeo's Trac instance.

-jeff





On 2013-12-18 7:49 AM, Vincent Picavet wrote:
> Hello board,
> 
> The OSGeo-fr local chapter organized this year a french-speaking one day event 
> on FLOSS in the GIS field (that is, FOSS4G).
> Since it was the first edition, we had a specific name for it (which was not 
> that appreciated by all).
> We had 150 people for this event and good feedback.
> 
> In 2014 we intend to run a 2 days conference event + 1 day of workshops, all 
> in french. We expect to gather around 300 persons.
> This event would be in Paris between the 20th and the 22nd of May, as we are 
> offered (free of charge) a location to organize it and this is the only slot 
> available.
> 
> We would like to call the conference FOSS4G-FR. We read the discussions on 
> "FOSS4G Brand" lately, and there does not seem to be a strict process to 
> follow to be able to use this name. Please correct me if things changed since 
> the threads we read.
> As for an announcement to the board, here it is :-)
> 
> The person in charge of the project is Étienne Delay, and organization takes 
> place on the OSGeo Francophone mailing list, as for now.
> 
> Note that Gérald Fenoy is part of the event and could relay informations 
> to/from OSGeo board.
> 
> Do not hesitate if you have any question.
> 
> Vincent Picavet / Étienne Delay