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

Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepicky at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 14:25:22 PDT 2014


Hey Jeff,

I was volunteering for the sprint as well

will teach how to do it from the best master ;-)

J

2014-10-03 22:07 GMT+02:00 Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>:
> 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:
>>
>>
>> 0) coordination: Maria Brovelli - Marco Minghini
>>
>> 1) website: Nicolas Bozon - Gerald Fenoy - Marco Negretti [web]
>>
>> 2)  workshops: Siki Zoltan - Carlos Granell - Simone Corti - Stefano
>> Piffer [ws]
>>
>> 3) General Track: Jorge Sanz - Giuseppe Conti - Stefano Campus [gt]
>>
>> 4) Academic Track: Sven Schade - Massimiliano Cannata - Marco Brambilla
>> [at]
>>
>> 5) Water Track: Dragan Savic - Maria Brovelli - Carolina Arias -
>> Margherita di Leo - Peter Weels - Andreas Burzel [wt]
>>
>> 6) Open Data Track: Maurizio Napolitano (Napo) - Codrina Ilia [odt]
>>
>> 7) Library Track: Peter Loewe - Marcella Samakovlija [lt]
>>
>> 8) Live USB: Angelos Tzotsos - Luca Delucchi - Marco Negretti [liv]
>>
>> 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
>>
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