[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2016 host city & Planning to make use of our FOSS4G conferences to launch new Educational initiatives every year

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Jeff,

On 2015/03/06 4:43, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Indeed, I can remember helping Shawn Barnes setup a live-dvd for the
> workshops at the "OSGIS" event in 2004 in Ottawa, ha, wow, a long time
> ago, ahead of our time...I think we used Knoppix (or something along
> that name). Nice to look back once in while :)

Looking back too, I remember the Installfest that was held in
FOSS4G-2004 in Bangkok [1] using pre-packaged Linux distribution that
included GRASS/MapServer and related stuff.

"GISIX - a live Linux platform for FOSS GIS" [2] was also presented
and demonstrated by Peter Loewe and Markus Neteler.

Best

Venka

[1] http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/
[2] http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/grass04/viewabstract.php?id=49
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2015-03-05 3:33 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Adding to Suchith's comment. FOSS4G does provided a good platform to
>> launch initiatives. OSGeo-Live was launched from FOSS4G 2009, as
>> mentioned here:
>> http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/memoirs-of-cat-herder-coordinating.html
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/03/2015 1:15 am, Suchith Anand wrote:
>>> Congrats to Bonn Team and great work by Dublin Team.
>>>
>>> I hope the Dublin Team will apply for FOSS4G 2017 Europe and build up
>>> your excellent efforts.
>>>
>>> Also my humble suggestion for all LOCs (present and future) and to our
>>> wider community (hence ccing in) is that we see and make use of the
>>> global and regional conferences not just as events but excellent
>>> platforms to launch new initiatives.
>>>
>>> When we hosted FOSS4G 2013 in Nottingham, the energy and momentum
>>> build up the  whole LOC Team inspired me to launch "Geo for All"
>>> Education mission publicly without any funding or backup plan. When i
>>> look back at that email
>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-September/012387.html
>>> i thought maybe i was very over ambitious (esp. the targets set for
>>> Africa) to put these big targets without any funding  but seeing the
>>> volunteer commitments put in by the whole LOC Team (who had worked
>>> hard over the whole year juggling their work and family commitments)
>>> and the wider FOSS4G community first hand, i was fully confident that
>>> we will achieve this over the years.
>>>
>>> So my suggestion is that from now, we use our conferences (esp. the
>>> main global conference) to launch new initiatives . From "Geo for All"
>>> i can confirm that we will be happy to arrange one new educational
>>> initiative launch at each global FOSS4G conference. We will invite
>>> ideas from the community for this and select the best ones to announce
>>> and launch them.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Suchith
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>> [conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Sanghee Shin
>>> [shshin at gaia3d.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 1:44 PM
>>> To: Jachym Cepicky
>>> Cc: conference
>>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2016 host city
>>>
>>> Congratulation to Bonn team!
>>>
>>> And thanks Dublin team for the great proposal & efforts.
>>>
>>> Bonn team, if there is anything that Seoul team could help, feel free
>>> to ask us.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Sanghee
>>> ---
>>> Sanghee Shin, Chair of FOSS4G 2015 Seoul
>>> "Toward Diversity! FOSS4G Bigbang from Seoul!"
>>> http://2015.foss4g.org
>>> Twitter: @foss4g
>>> Facebook: FOSS4G2015
>>> email: foss4gchair at osgeo.org<mailto:foss4gchair at osgeo.org>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2015. 3. 4., 오후 1:38, Jachym Cepicky
>>> <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com<mailto:jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>> 작성:
>>>
>>> Congrats to Bonn!
>>>
>>> Dublin: Great proposal. It was between two superb proposals (as
>>> usually last years). Thank you for your hard work.
>>>
>>> Jachym
>>>
>>> st 4. 3. 2015 v 14:15 odesílatel Steven Feldman
>>> <shfeldman at gmail.com<mailto:shfeldman at gmail.com>> napsal:
>>> Congrats to Bonn
>>>
>>> Reminder to the Bonn team from me (not board)
>>>
>>> I would encourage you to offer the board a quick heads up on the level
>>> of advance funding you think you might need and when you will need it
>>> (e.g. a deposit for the venue)
>>>
>>> Dublin, a great bid - don’t be discouraged. Why not consider applying
>>> for FOSS4G Europe 2017?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> ______
>>>
>>> Steven
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4 Mar 2015, at 13:10, Jeff McKenna
>>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com<mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks mpg (and for waking up early on the West coast to share this
>>> information), and thanks to both teams for all this effort.
>>>
>>> Tomorrow the OSGeo Board will vote to approve this
>>> recommendation/decision.
>>>
>>> I also value all of the questions and comments by the OSGeo Conference
>>> Committee members.  Very thorough.
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2015-03-04 8:51 AM, Michael Gerlek wrote:
>>> Thirteen of the 18 members of the committee having voted, the host
>>> city for the 2016 FOSS4G event will be:
>>>
>>> Bonn, Germany
>>>
>>> Congratulations to the Bonn team, and all our thanks to both the Bonn
>>> and the Dublin teams for all the work they put in to preparing their
>>> bids.
>>>
>>> -mpg
>>>
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