[OSGeo-Conf] Kicking off the 2016 process

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Jeff,
I've read through, and document looks pretty good. Thanks.

1. Following on from Till's comment about FOSSGIS being listed in the 
past FOSS4G conferences.
As you will have noticed, OSGeo/FOSS4G has now grown to the point where 
there are now multiple FOSS4G regional and local events happening every 
year.
You can get an indication for the number from our OSGeo-Live history 
page, which lists where OSGeo-Live is used:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_History

If FOSSGIS is listed, then some of the other large FOSS4G events should 
also be listed (FOSS4G-NA immediately comes to mind considering that 
attracts comparable, if not more people than FOSSGIS and FOSS4G).
We could try and list all regional and possibly local events, but I 
suspect that it will become too difficult to keep up to date. As such, 
it would likely be easier to only list the FOSS4G main annual events.

2. Lessons Learned from 2012 is not listed. (This was our failed year). 
While painful to remember, I think we learned a lot from the experience 
we gained that year, which was captured in the lessons learned.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012_Lessons_Learned

On 10/12/2014 5:21 am, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> On 2014-12-09 7:16 PM, Till Adams wrote:
>> Jeff,
>>
>> there is a copy&paste-miss in the Pdf, see page 9 under "stage 1":
>>
>> “Letters of Intent" will be accepted from potential Local Organizing
>> Committees (LOC) in regions anywhere outside of North America and
>> Europe. If there are no submissions from groups in the region,
>> letters from any region will then be solicited. ... "
>>
>> I guess you mean:
>>
>> “Letters of Intent" will be accepted from potential Local Organizing
>> Committees (LOC) in regions only from Europe. If there are no
>> submissions from groups in the region, letters from any region will then
>> be solicited. ... "
>
>
> many thanks, I will change that and update the SVN version
>
>>
>>
>> Beside that you explicitly name the FOSSGIs conferences in your list
>> from page 4 but your list ends with that one in Heidelberg in 2011.
>> There have been FOSSGIs conferences 2012 (20.-22.03 in Dessau), 2013
>> (12.-14-6 in Rapperswil) and 2014 (19.-21.03 in Berlin) and the next one
>> will take place in Münster (11.03-15.03. 2015)
>>
>> just 2 penny.
>>
> interesting, exactly when i stopped doing this for the conference 
> committee ;)  (it was me all those years nagging FOSSGIS committees 
> for their reports for this RFP)  Could you champion that instead?  
> (please point the committees to the very short 3 page document for 
> them to fill out: 
> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/rfp/2016/osgeo-conference-financial-report-template.odt) 
>  thanks,
>
> -jeff
>

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