[Conference-europe] when and where

Dirk Frigne dirk.frigne at geosparc.com
Tue Aug 19 23:28:08 PDT 2014


+1 for early July for foss4g Europe 2015. 

+1 for yearly foss4g Europe

Next decision is where?
And structure for content (hands-on talks)

D.

On 20-08-14 06:09, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>
> OK,
>
> My feeling from this discussion is to stick with early July and
> possibly not to overlap with Inspire conference.
>
> I still hear Karel's voice and understand his concerns. Anybody else
> would prefer earlier in the year?
>
> @Stephan: I still see valid option to think about having less talks
> and more doing during foss4g. Sprinting, hacking, getting teams together.
>
> @Maria: Foss4g-global in Europe is no reason not to have Foss4-europe
> as well. Remember Bucharest? It should be little shifted in the topic,
> but still. Or am I wrong?
>
> @local chapters, any opinion about time slot? what about ogc events?
>
> Otherwise, I suggest July, since it had most support so far.
>
> Jachym
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> On Aug 20, 2014 4:50 AM, "Karel Charvat" <charvat at ccss.cz
> <mailto:charvat at ccss.cz>> wrote:
>
>     Hi, I think that problem is to decide, for whom conference has to be
>     organised.  Probably for academic sector seems summer better, for
>     commercial
>     sector not to  much suitable
>     Karel
>
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: conference-europe-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:conference-europe-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
>     [mailto:conference-europe-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:conference-europe-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] On Behalf Of Peter
>     Baumann
>     Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 4:10 PM
>     To: Maria Antonia Brovelli; conference-europe at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:conference-europe at lists.osgeo.org>
>     Subject: Re: [Conference-europe] when and where
>
>     let me add that the semester problem is not just one of the
>     organisers: many
>     participants are students or university researchers, and for them
>     leaving
>     for a week during semester usually is hard, if not unfeasible.
>
>     my 2 cents,
>     Peter
>
>
>     On 08/19/2014 04:02 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
>     > I'm getting lost.
>     >
>     > Just few comments:
>     > - FOSS4G Eu is supposed to have at least 150  people attending
>     but we
>     > have to be prepared in having also more
>     > - FOSS4G Eu is for European people who don't have the possibility
>     (time/money) of going to America and Asia but want to be updated
>     about what
>     is happening in the FOSS4G community. FOSS4G Eu will not be held
>     the year in
>     which FOSS4G is in Europe.
>     > - One of the topic of FOSS4G Eu is INSPIRE, but it is NOT the
>     INSPIRE
>     > Conference. There is more worth of discussing
>     > - Unfortunately I don't have any experience with Code Sprint and
>     therefore
>     I don't know from the logistic point of view what is needed (but I
>     suppose a
>     computer room or at least a room with good wifi connection). How
>     many people
>     are expected to attend a Code Sprint? There are special reasons
>     why a Code
>     Sprint can't be in summer?
>     > - Code Sprint and Challenge, like the NASA WW: if we want to have
>     > students involved the best period is at the end of the semesters
>     (i.e.
>     > summer)
>     >
>     > Anyway and concluding: it seems me that the first problem is
>     about the
>     period of the year.
>     > For University the possibility is during summer and therefore I
>     vote for
>     summer. Having the conference at the University means also involve
>     students
>     in the FOSS4G world and this, in my opinion, is an added value.
>     For other
>     people, if the main problem is about holiday, probably knowing the
>     conference dates a year in advance, there are possibilities of
>     organize
>     ourselves.
>     > And, at the end, we don't have to decide the period of the
>     conference once
>     forever. In my opinion we can start with next year.
>     > Cheers.
>     > Maria
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
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>     > <conference-europe-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:conference-europe-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> per conto di
>     Karel Charvat
>     > <charvat at ccss.cz <mailto:charvat at ccss.cz>>
>     > Inviato: martedì 19 agosto 2014 04.15
>     > A: 'Stephan Meißl'; conference-europe at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:conference-europe at lists.osgeo.org>
>     > Oggetto: Re: [Conference-europe] when and where
>     >
>     >  From my side is question, if it is feasible to have during one year
>     > two such events in Europe, Karel
>     >
>     >
>     > -----Original Message-----
>     > From: conference-europe-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:conference-europe-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
>     > [mailto:conference-europe-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:conference-europe-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] On Behalf Of
>     > Stephan Meißl
>     > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 5:06 PM
>     > To: conference-europe at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:conference-europe at lists.osgeo.org>
>     > Subject: Re: [Conference-europe] when and where
>     >
>     > Jachym,
>     >
>     >> I understand the universities issue, but FOSS4G-Europe is not that
>     >> big (and maybe it will remain rather small), that we can still fit
>     >> into small venues. I liked the organization of Vienna Code Sprint -
>     >> it was done in cooperation with city of Vienna and we fit in
>     comfortably.
>     > I think running a Code Sprint and running a FOSS4G-Europe are two
>     > completely different things in terms of effort but also in
>     requirements
>     for the venue.
>     > Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that FOSS4G-Europe
>     would fit
>     > into the Vienna code sprint venue.
>     >
>     >> I do not think Europe Code Sprint has to timely overlap with the
>     >> (next
>     >> year) U.S.-based C tribe, but March-April is IMHO better, then
>     later.
>     >> But it was nice, that we could join events like NASA World Wind
>     >> Challenge  and possibly others as well, not sure, how possible this
>     >> should be, if we move FOSS4G-Europe to march/april then.
>     > Although there is a fairly small overlap I'd appreciate if the Code
>     > Sprint and FOSS4G-Europe don't overlap ;) I don't like the idea of
>     > separate US and European code sprints as I find it important to have
>     > one global OSGeo Code Sprint per year. In my opinion this
>     argument is
>     > even stronger for the Code Sprint than for the global FOSS4G.
>     >
>     > If the Code Sprint returns to Europe in 2016 I could image that it
>     > makes sense to run both events back-to-back although this would
>     result
>     > in a quite long event as both are almost running for a week.
>     >
>     > cu
>     > Stephan
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