[OSGeo-Conf] Re: Motion Regarding FOSS4G-CEE Name

[Vasile Craciunescu]

I'd like to comment some more on FOSS4G-CEE and why the impact on global 
FOSS4G will be minor (at least in the following years).

We are targeting an geographic/cultural/economic area with few 
participants to the global FOSS4G conference (only 5 attendees to 
Denver). This is mainly due to: a) high price of participation to the 
global FOSS4G; b) Lack of a strong FOSS4G community. In my opinion, 
FOSS4G-CEE should:

* Keep the cost of participation as low as possible. We can do this by 
organizing the event in partnership with universities and use their 
facilities for the conference/practical workshops. We can still make 
some revenue for OSGeo.
* Focus on students. The CEE FOSS4G community should be constructed from 
the bottom.
* Present as many FOSS4G case studies/success stories as possible. We 
need to convince the participants that FOSS4G software is capable to 
resolve their needs, from simple tasks to complex projects as the 
national SDIs.
* Invite a fair number of FOSS4G/OSGeo leaders and charismatic 
characters. Our young community needs to be inspired and find some 
models to follow.
* Bring in national/european actors involved in INSPIRE

My two cents,
Vasile




On 10/11/11 11:22 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> Thank you all for making this decision. It was very important not only
> for us to know, where we can go. I would be happy with any result, just
> to know where the pitch lines are, this result is of course the better
> one at the moment.
>
> I'm following the discussion in other threads carefully and so far I can
> only tell, the topics you are rising are very interesting and I can see
> so far positives and negatives as you do.
>
> Speaking about franchising of FOSS4G trade mark, and getting some budget
> out of all regional "FOSS4G"-named conferences. The prise should be set,
> so that the event itself could still be made low cost, with reasonable
> budget.
>
> Remember: FOSS4G-CEE should be during spring, so that the FOSS4G-Global
> would not be affected directly with this event. We are actually going
> directly against Czech traditional Geoinformatics, which will have to
> find it's new role (or not, depends...). I think, if what ever FOSS4G-*
> would take place during spring, the impact on the global event will be
> much lower.
>
> I still see as an option, approach the world championship way: every
> second year global event, every other year bigger local events.
>
> Jachym
>
> On 11.10.2011 00:10, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Frank Warmerdam<warmerdam at pobox.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Motion: The OSGeo Conference Committee on behalf of OSGeo
>>> declares that it has no objection to the name FOSS4G-CEE being
>>> used for an open source geospatial conference in central and eastern
>>> europe organized by a group including Karel Charvat and Jachym
>>> Cepicky.
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I think it has been two business days since I raised this motion.
>> It has support from Paul, Peter, Dave, Mauricio, Cameron,
>> Markus, Venka and myself with no one expressing a veto or
>> a strong negative position. As such, barring process concerns
>> from our chair I declare the motion passed.
>>
>> Jachym / Karel - I hope you will treat this as "OSGeo is
>> reasonable comfortable with your naming your conference
>> FOSS4G CEE".
>>
>> Best regards,
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