[OSGeo-Conf] Conference reports 2015 & 2016 for inclusion in RfP 2018

[Eli Adam]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have done a quick copy and paste to create this rough page
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Past_FOSS4G_Reports
>
> I have applied some simple formatting to 2014 - would anyone like to pick
> this up and tidy up 2004-2013? Note that tables haven’t come over as tables
> but the main content is there.
>
> Sanghee and Till could you update the page with reports from 2015 and 2016
> (when you have had your wrap up)
>
> Questions for all on this list:
> 1) should we be gathering any other info?
> 2) should we separate out the FOSSGIS reports and other non FOSS4G reports
> or does this provide a more useful resource if all are combined?
>
> I have put a link to this page into the Handbook in the See also section
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook#See_Also should it be there or
> somewhere else. i have also put a link to the Reports on the main Conference
> page
>
> I intend to redraft the RfP over the next few days - my aim is to trim it
> down to 13-15 pages with links to the Handbook and the Reports given
> priority over loads of text, are there any other resources that I should
> include?

When I revised a previous RFP, I thought that we might want to leave
the PDF format.  We could go to something like html from markup or
something else like this.  A lot of the edits you make will be simple
year changes, url changes, etc.  Some of that could be addressed with
just editing variables.  If nothing else, looking at a previous year
diff might make it fast and easy to make the current year diff.  Or we
could remove the year specific information and write a general
document.

Best regards, Eli

>
> Following our face to face the brief for a RoW event will be slightly
> different to a NA or European event, I intend to combine both in one
> document rather than creating different version for RoW etc. Does anyone
> have a different view.
>
>
> Cheers
> ______
> Steven
>
>
> On 5 Sep 2016, at 22:12, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> +1 to putting 40 pages of past reports online and not including in RFPs.
>
>  I think we should consider going further and respecting the time of people
> responding to RFPs. What is worth reading in 10 years worth of event
> reports?
>
> Ideally, we as past chairs should be refining what we have learned, and
> presenting a more concise set of guidelines. (Dare I mention the FOSS4G
> Handbook.) This handbook can reference back to source material such as
> Lessons Learned and foss4g reports.
>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook
>
>
> On 5/09/2016 10:47 AM, Peter Batty wrote:
>
> Hi Steven, I don't know whether / where they are hosted online, but if they
> aren't there already I think they should be put up somewhere, and I think it
> would make sense to link to them (and any other relevant extra material) and
> reduce the length of the RFP.
>
> Cheers,
>     Peter.
>
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 7:12 AM, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In the past the RfP docs have included an appendix with all of the
>> Conference Reports from past chairs - the last one in the 2017 RfP was the
>> 2104 report.
>>
>> Some questions:
>> 1) are these hosted online somewhere?
>> 2) the RfP has grown very long at nearly 60 pages with 40 of those pages
>> being past reports. Should we host the reports online and link to them
>> rather than include in RfP?
>>
>>
>> ______
>> Steven
>>
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