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

[Karel Charvat]

Vasile thanks. We are now already working on it and I hope during next week start invited colleagues from CEE into preparation team. We made first steps, and  we are sure to be able to organise FOSS4G CEE as low cost events. Our goal is to limited regular fee by 100 Euro. So this we put as our goal. (for students we will see for better solution). The part of Czech team is CENIA (public organisation under Ministry of Environment responsible for INSPIRE in Czech R. - big part of Czech INSPIRE portal are OS) and Forest management Institute also using OS and contributing to Open data Access.
About afraid about participation on Being event, I can guarantee, that from Czech Republic (people working in Czech Republic currently) will come minimally the some number of people like was in Denver. For CEE event is our goal not only meeting of developers (it will be supported also and we are planning to organise some codesprints, etc.), but also bring OS to users.
Karel



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From: conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Vasile Craciunescu
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:20 AM
To: conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Re: Motion Regarding FOSS4G-CEE Name

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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