[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G2012: Next Steps

[Jachym Cepicky]

Sice Martin Landa (member of our committee) is offline this week, I
would also like to add, that Martin is organizing regular meetings on
Czech Technical University, called Geoinformatics [1], which is
international seminar (smaller group of people). This year it was
connected with GRASS Community Sprint.

Jachym

[1] http://geoinformatics.fsv.cvut.cz

2011/7/12 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>:
> Thank you Karel and Jachym for both responding. Multiple responses is good
> in that it hints at a stronger community.
> Karel, you mention that you are current running an international conference.
> Can you please provide some details about it. What is it for? How many
> people? Are the same organisors involved? Does it draw upon similar target
> audiences?
>
>
> On 12/07/11 09:42, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>>
>> I would just like to add, that we (HS-RS) are member of OGC as well as
>> members of INSPIRE Drafting Teams, which are importand platforms for
>> FOSS4G Conference promotion, on local (European) as well as global
>> level.
>>
>> About the committee dynamic, we
>> were able to organize LoI within several days, starting negotiations
>> with several conference centers and ask several state and public
>> organizations for explicit support. This all having half of the team in
>> Edinburg (INSPIRE Conference) and another half organizing another
>> conference (which is running right now) in Czech.
>>
>> Sorry, if I'm too verbose
>>
>> Jachym
>>
>> 2011/7/11 Karel Charvat<charvat at ccss.cz>:
>>>
>>> Dear Cameron,
>>> I think, that from local community we are easy able to attract all
>>> people.
>>> Free and Open Source software is used by more companies in our country
>>> and
>>> there exist community of companies who are using FOSS solution and some
>>> of
>>> them also actively contribute to the development. Academic community is
>>> very
>>> active ad in principle already all Universities dealing with GIS or SDI
>>> are
>>> in some way in connection with us. What is important, that also public
>>> sector accept FOSS solution, our national INSPIRE portal is hundred
>>> percent
>>> based on Open Sources (and Czech Environmental Agency CENIA is member of
>>> our
>>> team). Also other public bodies like Forest Management Institute, some
>>> regions are using FOSS solution. So we are sure, that, we are able to
>>> attract communities in our country. Due the fact, that our group is
>>> active
>>> in many European research project, but also in commercial activities in
>>> other countries, we are sure to be able attract people from this
>>> countries
>>> (Slovakia, Latvia, Poland). We are now running one international
>>> conference,
>>> so we have already dedicated group of people, with experiences with this
>>> area and we have also good imagination about necessary effort.
>>> I am also sure, that we are able to attract sponsors from and country,
>>> but
>>> also form other European countries.
>>> Best regards
>>> Karel
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>> [mailto:conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Cameron
>>> Shorter
>>> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 10:16 PM
>>> To: conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G2012: Next Steps
>>>
>>> For me, I think that a conference's success is largely influenced by how
>>> well the local community can attract people from the local community.
>>> (The international community is important, but will likely come no
>>> matter what).
>>>
>>> So can you please answer:
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> --
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>
>
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> Cameron Shorter
> Geospatial Director
> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>
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> http://www.lisasoft.com
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