[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G2012: Next Steps

[Cameron Shorter]

Thank you Paolo,
The proven experience of GFOSS.it you describe putting of GFOSS Days, 
GRASS Meetings, gvSIG days are an excellent credentials. It demonstrates 
that you have a committed community who already have the experience 
required to pull together an event.


On 12/07/11 08:53, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Il 11/07/2011 22:16, Cameron Shorter ha scritto:
>
>> 1. What is your ability to attract local and regional delegates. What connections do
>> you have with the local geospatial communities? Are you in a position to help
>> encourage participation from local communities?
> We (GFOSS.it) have about 100 associates, and the community is over 500 people,
> regularly growing. Our conferences (GFOSS Days, GRASS Meetings, gvSIG dyas) are
> attended by hundreds of persons.
>
>> 2. What is your ability to attract local sponsorship? Sponsorship covers a large
>> proportion of the costs of the conference. How are you planning to attract local
>> sponsors? Do you have anyone in a position to influence attraction of sponsors?
> The above mentioned conferences have always been sponsored by Public Administrations,
> banks, and other firms. Many of GFOSS.it members work in the Public Administrations,
> Universisies, and private companies, and have proved successful to attract funding to
> support our conferences and meetings.
>
>> 3. Do you have dynamic, decisive, committed people on your committee? This one might
>> be a bit hard to answer. To be successful, you will need to make lots of decisions.
>> Some will have straight forward answers. Most won't. You will need to be decisive and
>> you will need to spend a large amount of time selflessly thinking about the
>> conference. Doing things, and encouraging others to do things. I think I was spending
>> ~ 10 to 15 hours / week on the conference in the first 12 to 6 months out, then 15 to
>> 20 hours / week in the 6 months before the conference.
> GFOSS.it has a formal Steering Committee, elected by the Annual General Assembly. The
> SC regularly holds meeting (once a month at least) to take formal decisions about
> budget and other issues of the Association.
> we have volunteers deling with our infrastructure, including a web portal, a wiki, a
> debian repo, a data repo, several mailing lists and IRC channels.
> Furthermore, in GFOSS.it community we have prominent developers of several crucial
> software, including SpatiaLite, GeoServer, and PostGIS.
>
> All the best.


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