[Conference-europe] [general] FOSS4G Eu 2015 - First Episod

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Maria,

Please add my name for helping with the Code Sprint (I didn't see it in 
your list).

ciao,

-jeff



On 2014-10-03 4:08 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
>
> Dear All
>
>
> a) thanks for offering your help!
>
>
> b) Here a first list of FOSS4G 2015 Champions:
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>
> 0) coordination: Maria Brovelli - Marco Minghini
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> 1) website: Nicolas Bozon - Gerald Fenoy - Marco Negretti [web]
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> 2)  workshops: Siki Zoltan - Carlos Granell - Simone Corti - Stefano
> Piffer [ws]
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> 3) General Track: Jorge Sanz - Giuseppe Conti - Stefano Campus [gt]
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> 4) Academic Track: Sven Schade - Massimiliano Cannata - Marco Brambilla [at]
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> 5) Water Track: Dragan Savic - Maria Brovelli - Carolina Arias -
> Margherita di Leo - Peter Weels - Andreas Burzel [wt]
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> 6) Open Data Track: Maurizio Napolitano (Napo) - Codrina Ilia [odt]
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> 7) Library Track: Peter Loewe - Marcella Samakovlija [lt]
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> 8) Live USB: Angelos Tzotsos - Luca Delucchi - Marco Negretti [liv]
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> 10) NASA WW Challenge: Patrick Hogan - Gabor Remetey - Maria Brovelli -
> Rody Jolak - Giorgio Zamboni - Giuseppe Conti [ww]
> 11) Map Party: Maria Brovelli - George Gartner - Monia Molinari - Luca
> Delucchi - Marco Brambilla [map]
> 12) GeoForAll meeting: Suchith Anand - Maria Brovelli - Marco Minghini
> [gfa]
>
>
> My idea is that every committee starts working for proposing how to deal
> with the specific commitments they have and then report to  other people.
>
>
> c) In order to use the same mailing list but avoid reading everything,
> we can put in the subject of the emails, at their beginning, the
> specific item they refer to. For instance: ww: award for students stands
> for: NASA WW is the committee and
>
> sfor students is the subject. It means that people involved in NASA WW
> Challenge MUST read it, other people MAY read it. For general subjects
> use "general"
>
> If you have better ideas, please share.
>
>
> d) Next week together with Marco Minghini, aka Mingo, I'll provide a
> first description of rooms and places available.
>
>
> e) In my opinion the committees have to prepare a call for papers or
> call for abstracts and decide how to deal with the reviews. I suppose
> that the at (academic track) and wt (water track) will follow the
> traditional way of having a scientific committee, for the others (ws,
> gt,odt,lt) we want to know which is your idea. In general I don't like
> the secret ballot but I prefere to have a committee of people taking the
> responsability of deciding and putting their face. But this is just my
> idea. In any case whichever is your decision it has to be implemented
> using some existing software.
>
>
> f) And then please please another request: is there someone who wants to
> write on behalf of all of us an email to all the European OSGeo Chapters
> and to the "European based" OSGeo Projects, asking for their
> collaboration (at least in advertising but, well, the more the better).
>
>
> g) If we opt for a committee for the acceptance of the abstracts in the
> general track,  could it be a suitable idea to ask every Chapter and
> Project to express one-two people as members of the committee?
>
>
>
> h) In the meanwhile, the [web] committee has to start as soon as
> possible the website. Is it possible to have the different commitees
> with name, photo and email address of the people involved in such a way
> that they can be contacted by everybody for questions?
>
>
> *
> i) Last but not least: if there is anybody in this mailing list who
> wants to add their name in the 0-12 items, please do!
>
> Nice week end to everybody and thanks again!!!
> Maria
>