[Board] Minneapolis Community Sprint 2019

[Jody Garnett]

Indeed we should be doing a call out to projects an committees to help set
2019 budget - so this will be on our list for "code sprint" targets.
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Jody Garnett


On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 at 23:29, María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Would it be fine if we wait until the Board election finishes to discuss
> and approve this?
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 8:14 PM Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <
> steve.lime at state.mn.us> wrote:
>
>> Hi all: We’ve been doing some serious planning around hosting a
>> community/code sprint in Minneapolis next spring and things look like they
>> will come together nicely – I’m asking for OSGeo’s support for the event.
>> We have formed a local committee consisting of members of the Twin Cities
>> MapServer User Group (the local OSGeo chapter), the University of Minnesota
>> U Spatial organization and SharedGeo – a local non-profit. A sprint page is
>> taking shape here:
>>
>>
>>
>>   https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Sprint_2019
>>
>>
>>
>> At a glance:
>>
>>
>>
>>   When: May 14-17 (4 days)
>>
>>   Where: Minneapolis, MN – University of Minnesota (Wilson Research
>> Collaboration Studio)
>>
>>   Anticipated attendance: 50+
>>
>>   Projects: we expect a wide variety of projects to be represented -
>> folks from MapServer, the LiDAR community, GeoMoose and PostGIS have
>> already committed to attend.
>>
>>
>>
>> Have secured event space and have already began reaching out to sponsors
>> – with success. We are working on preliminary budget that will be posted at
>> the link above. The space is being made available at no charge thanks to
>> our partnership with U Spatial so sponsorship dollars will go largely
>> towards daily meals and ice breaker events for the attendees.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your consideration… Best regards!
>>
>>
>>
>> --Steve
>>
>>
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