[Conference-europe] FOSS4GE 2025 proposal from Mostar (BA)

[Marco Minghini]

Dear Tõnis, all,
thanks for sharing the proposal. Happy to see interest from Mostar to host
our European conference!

In general I am fully supportive and already looking forward to another
great conference in a beautiful place.
However, I think some aspects of the proposals should be better described:

- Luca rightly mentioned the absence of info about the Local Organising
Committee, which is key to make the conference a success. Some info on the
people would be necessary already at this stage, at least to know who would
be the Chair, who would be in the main team and if/what experience they
have.
- I am not very convinced by the opening and closing ceremonies in a
theatre located 500 metres away from the university, where the parallel
sessions happen. 500 metres is quite a distance and this may impact the
overall organisation (times, location of sponsors, coffee breaks, etc.).
Also, the proposal mentions the opening and closing sessions only, but also
the plenary sessions with keynote speakers are sessions that in principle
all participants will attend. Perhaps a theatre room at the university
(like those shown in Figures 12 and 13) may be enough?

I can in principle offer again my availability to co-organise the Academic
Track in partnership with the International Society for Photogrammetry and
Remote Sensing (ISPRS), and I'm sure I can count on the support and
contribution of many other European colleagues. However, as done in the
past few years, full support and commitment from some (academic) members of
the local committee would be needed. To me, this is a necessary condition
to start the whole process. Some feedback from the local team on this would
be welcome.

Happy to continue the discussion.
All the best,
Marco


Il giorno gio 17 ott 2024 alle ore 08:11 Luca Delucchi via
Conference-Europe <conference-europe at lists.osgeo.org> ha scritto:

>
>
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 at 11:41, Tõnis Kärdi via Conference-Europe <
> conference-europe at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hey,
> >
>
> Hi Tonis,
>
>
> > after some issues with getting the proposal file across, there is
> > interest to host FOSS4G Europe 2025 in the beautiful city of Mostar,
> > Bosnia and Herzegovina (see [1])
> >
> > I propose we have an open discussion on this for the next two weeks
> > (ending Sunday 27.10). This should serve the purpose of maybe
> > fine-tuning the aspects of the organization that have not been described
> > in the proposal.
>
> I have some doubts about the local conference committee, in the proposal
> there is written nothing about it, it spoke just about a ecoplan
> company/association
>
> Best
> Luca
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