[Conference-europe] FOSS4G Europe 2018

Thu Feb 15 13:44:21 PST 2018

Hi Astrid,

Thank you for your support. I'll be in Bonn next month and we can review
the details related FOSS4G-Europe Code Sprint there.

See you soon,

Jorge Gustavo

On 15-02-2018 19:20, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> sorry, that I did not answer yet. I am lloking forward to FOSS4G Europe
> and will be there for the whole week an can support you where needed.
> 
> Am 2018-01-17 18:00, schrieb Jorge Gustavo Rocha:
>> Hi Astrid, hi all,
>>
>> Luis de Sousa already sent some feedback. Let me add some more
>> details/requests, with no special order or importance.
>>
>> 1. We have a mailing list for the LOC foss4g-europe at osgeopt.pt. Who
>> wants to joins us, please reply and I will add it to the list. The same
>> for our "kanban" based board, available at
>> https://wekan.osgeopt.pt/b/SJBkaBzg5mMmJT2kh/foos4g-europe-2018
>> Probably we should made the board available to all (read only), but
>> meanwhile I can add more people to it.
>>
>> 2. We have a Wordpress based website up and running. The information to
>> the public is minimal, right now. The web site is available at:
>> https://foss4g-europe.osgeopt.pt/
>>
>> 2.1 We need help to have https://europe.foss4g.org/2018 pointing to it.
> 
> https://europe.foss4g.org/ -> still redirects to
> https://europe.foss4g.org/2017
> https://europe.foss4g.org/2018 not available
> 
> Do you have a contact person to help? You should ask SAC.
> 
>> 2.1 This week we will release the registration and submission forms
>> (except for the academic track). We are just finishing the payment
>> process for the registration. Right now we can receive payments by bank
>> transfer and PayPal. Joana Simões also suggested bitcoins and we are
>> waiting for her help on this.
>>
>> 3. Links on OSGeo: done! (thanks for the pointers)
>>
>> * https://www.osgeo.org/events/
>> * https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Sponsorship_Opportunities_2018
> 
> Looks good.
> 
>> 4. Sponsorship
>>
>> We need help on this!
>>
>> Pedro Pereira already started a document, but we need someone else to
>> review it and check the values and the return to sponsors.
>>
>> The document is available at:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZQLZk3diGUcK68Jeq6a7CrFXxP0_88ADPmFteTrKpyE/edit?usp=sharing
>>
> 
> Here you find the press release for OSGeo Code Sprint 2018 Bonn
> sponsoring and a pdf to encourage for sponsoring:
> https://www.fossgis.de/node/305
> https://www.fossgis.de/sites/default/files/Sponsoring_OSGeo_Code_Sprint_2018_Bonn_en_0.pdf
> 
> 
>> 5. Communication (our current bottleneck)
>>
>> We need to start publishing some news about the event. Joana is taking
>> care of this and she will need the foss4ge twitter account, for sure.
> 
> Looks like this is done.
> 
> https://twitter.com/foss4ge
> 
> You can start with some tweets. Maybe refer to your event page and start
> of submission/registration.
> Please use  #FOSS4GE and #OSGeo
> 
> If you need help. I can support you with tweets during the conference.
> 
>> 6. Git repository
>>
>> Thanks for the pointer to git. We will use it.
>>
>> 7. Face to face meeting
>>
>> On Fev. 3rd, we will meet at the "crime scene". Flights to Oporto are
>> cheap (from Bonn, for example). If someone wants to come, we will do
>> everything to support/help.
> 
> Urg - missed that. Hope you had a good meeting.
> 
>> 8. Invited speakers
>>
>> We need for good suggestions for invited speakers. Minimum 3 (one for
>> each day), but we can have 6. We need names :-)
>>
>> 9. Code sprint
>>
>> I would like to ask Astrid help on this. We have nice conditions to run
>> the code sprint, but we don't know how important it is, since there are
>> also other sprints happening. We should discuss this code sprint in more
>> detail. If Astrid is able to support us in this issue, it would be
>> awesome.
> 
> Looks like many code sprint are taking place in 2018.
> 
> We discussed about calling it community sprint in the future. Maybe if
> many students are around it could have more charcter of a workshop day.
> 
>> As I said, we are finishing the online forms this week. Monday we can
>> start spreading the word about the event.
> 
> OSGeo Material
> * we are working on printing sticker, roll-ups, flyer ... maybe you can
> take some of the material to PT from Bonn Code Sprint or I can send it
> to you. Please tell me how much material you will need +-
> 
> Looking forward to the event.
> 
> Astrid
> 
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gustavo
>>
>>
>> On 16-01-2018 18:18, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) wrote:
>>> Hello Gustavo,
>>>
>>> I wonder whether there is any news about FOSS4G-Europe 2018. Maybe I
>>> only missed it.
>>>
>>> The following information I got from the proposal:
>>>
>>> Guimarães (Portugal) 17-19 of July, 2018 + workshops in the days before
>>> the event.
>>>
>>> OSGeo Board is planning the events for 2018 and FOSS4G-Europe 2018 is
>>> not listed there yet.
>>>
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Sponsorship_Opportunities_2018
>>>
>>> Do you have a timeline?
>>>
>>> When will you webside be available? https://europe.foss4g.org/2018
>>>
>>> Please add an OSGeo event https://www.osgeo.org/events/
>>>
>>> You can use twitter to promote your event: https://twitter.com/foss4ge
>>>
>>> Note that you can use https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/foss4g-europe/ for
>>> your file archive.
>>>
>>> If you need any help feel free to ask.
>>>
>>> Astrid
>>
>> J. Gustavo
> 

J. Gustavo
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