[OSGeo-Conf] Conference software

Tue Oct 22 00:13:53 PDT 2013

Hi Percy,

I hope the chair is comfortable! I am happy to share with you our
experiences as chairs for Nottingham. I am currently quite busy preparing
for a course in Windhoek (Namibia), but once I am there (next 2 weeks)
I'll have boring hotel nights to write in a bit more detail about our
experiences.

Note that the Nottingham OLC used a cooperation website called BaseCamp
for their internal communication, so you won't find much on the conference
list archives. The cookbook is not updated with our stuff yet, we have a
finalizing meeting on November 20 where among other things we plan to
update the cookbook.

Your,
--
Barend Köbben 
Franz-Josef Behr
Academic Track chairs

FOSS4G 2013: Geo for All
Nottingham (UK), 17-21 Sep 2013
http://2013.foss4g.org
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On 22-10-13 07:40, "David Percy" <percyd at pdx.edu> wrote:

>Hey folks,
>
>Sorry for the delay, the start of the new term's teaching load bogged me
>down a little, plus a few conferences, etc...
>
>We are completely excited about working with Nottingham's AT to keep the
>momentum and continuity going.
>
>
>Did you use a separate mailing list to keep track of the AT stuff, or
>just mixed in with the regular list? I guess I can answer that by looking
>at the archives!
>:-)
>
>
>So, yes, as Eli indicates I am the official academic track chair, though
>I have recruited my colleague Phillip Davis from Texas to co-chair. We
>are working on several other initiatives together, including a department
>of labor grant to fund open source gis
> technical proficiency standards in higher ed, and some cloud computing
>stuff for URISA.
>
>
>I'd really like to get as many international academics as possible on the
>committee, and really look forward to getting advice from previous years
>AT organizers!
>
>
>A checklist would be cool... I see that further down the thread there are
>some details that I will make note of, and also check the cookbook to see
>how much was captured there.
>
>
>Let's keep that momentum going!
>:-)
>
>Cheers,
>Percy 
>
>
>
>On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Eli Adam
><eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
>
>The Portland LOC is excited to continue the momentum and the well
>established working parts of the AT.  We gladly welcome any help or
>advice from previous FOSS4G Academic Committee Members (or others).
>
>
>Just a point of clarification, Percy is the FOSS4G 2014 Academic Track
>Chair.  He can more directly address specifics.
>
>
>
>Best Regards, Eli
>
>
>
>On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Suchith Anand
><Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>Hi Barend,
>
>Thanks to you , Franz-Josef and all the reviewers for your time and
>efforts in setting up well coordinated organisation of the academic track
>of FOSS4G 2013 and getting the journal publishing in time. This is very
>important for the submitting authors to know
> that selected outputs will be published in timescales announced. Well
>done to all of you.
>
>It is also good that now the working system is now in place for the
>Academic Track publications for FOSS4G as this was again one key
>objective of ICA-OSGeo MoU vision. Could I request Portland LOC to also
>continue building upon the momentum build on the AT.
> Thanks for volunteering to coordinate  this again for next year. I am
>sure Portland LOC will be happy to get your inputs and expertise.
>
>Suchith
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>[mailto:conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
>b.j.kobben at utwente.nl
>Sent: 25 September 2013 10:32
>To: jsanz at osgeo.org;
>marco.lechner at fossgis.de <mailto:marco.lechner at fossgis.de>
>Cc: conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org;
>eadam at co.lincoln.or.us;
>b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Conference software
>
>Hi all,
>
>For the FOSS4g2013 conference we used two separate systems: WordPress for
>the main conference site and the presentation and workshops tracks, and
>OJS (Open Journal System) [http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/] for the
> Academic Track (AT).
>
>I can't speak for the Wordpress site, that has been done mostly by Barry
>Rowlingson and Jo Cook (cc-d). The OJS we used for the AT is installed on
>the OSGEO servers, and also used by the OSGEO Journal. The AT chairs (F-J
>Behr and myself) experienced OJS as
> well suited for that particular task, for a next conference we'd
>probably want to tweak it a bit further, but in general it served us well.
>
>Dating back from the ICA-OSGEO MoU the idea was to consolidate the
>Academic Track (starting at the ill-fated Beijing conference). I
>volunteered for that at the time and carried that over to Nottingham. I'd
>suggest that to keep this going, the Portland team
> sh/could continue using the same systems, and I am volunteering to
>coordinate the effort with the Portland LOC (I understand that Eli Adam
>would be their AT person).
>
>Yours,
>--
>Barend Köbben
>ITC - University of Twente
>PO Box 217, 7500AE Enschede (The Netherlands)
>+31-(0)53 4874 253 <tel:%2B31-%280%2953%204874%20253>
>@barendkobben
>
>
>
>On 25-09-13 10:33, "Jorge Sanz" <jsanz at osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>>2013/9/23 Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. <marco.lechner at fossgis.de>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the german-speaking OSGeo local chapter D-A-CH announced that it
>>> plans to bid for hosting the FOSS4G 2016.
>>> Anyway, after years of running the annual FOSSGIS conference (about
>>> 400 delegates/year), we are unhappy with our software solution
>>> assisting our orga-team. Right now we are using a combination of
>>> pentabarf [1] (for managing paper ssubmission, review and planing of
>>> the program) and CiviCRM [2] on Drupal (for registration, billing and
>>> payment). This does not fit our needs and produces too much
>>> additional work to be done to fullfill our requirements.
>>> We found out that the german linux day, Linuxtag [3], is facing the
>>> similar problems. Our recent plans are, to enhance Frab [4] to fit
>>> our needs during the next years.
>>> May be it is also interesting for organising FOSS4G conferences and
>>> anybody wants to participate. Any commends welcome.
>>>
>>> Best regards - and thank you all for the great elapsed conference in
>>> Nottingham
>>>
>>> Marco
>>> FOSSGIS e.V. / OSGeo lc D-A-CH
>>>
>>> [1] http://pentabarf.org
>>> [2] http://civicrm.org/
>>> [3] http://www.linuxtag.org
>>> [4] http://frab.github.io/frab
>>
>>
>>Hi Marco,
>>
>>Maybe Drupal is not the path you want to follow but they have a
>>distribution specially focused on conferences called COD. I don't have
>>experience with this drupal profile, it's just what I know they use for
>>their confs.
>>
>>Best
>>
>>http://usecod.com/
>>https://drupal.org/documentation/build/cod
>>https://drupal.org/project/cod_support
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Jorge Sanz
>>http://www.osgeo.org
>>http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz
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