[OSGeo-Conf] Initial Update and Requests from Dar es Salaam 2018

[Michael Terner]

+1 to what Mark wrote.

The Boston Team has reached out to Mark individually to offer our full
support and ability to answer any questions the Dar es Salaam team may have
(just as Till graciously did for us).

Also, when we took on the OSGeo advance, one of the conditions was having
an OSGeo Board Member join our LOC. Sanghee Shin volunteered and is a
formal member of the team and has been very helpful in answering questions
and providing advice.

We appreciate (and practiced ourselves) the "not stealing the thunder"
sensitivity, but we are happy to help. Also, just as Bonn provided for us
we can assure the Dar Team that we will provide room on our program for a
great introduction to FOSS4G 2018 and an ability to strut your stuff on the
Boston stage!

MT

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:28 PM, Mark Iliffe <markiliffe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Eli,
>
> Thanks for this - we’ll raise a ticket accordingly for the website. We
> have a representative of the OSGEO board on our LOC - Maria. We had made
> collaboration with OSGEO’s committees a key part of our proposal - we want
> to ensure that this awareness is raised to the fullest extent.
>
> I’ll make a SAC request shortly. With Boston, we want to ensure that we’re
> picking up the torch immediately after the conference - we don’t want to
> steal Boston’s thunder, but we would like to be prepared for the unique
> circumstances of our conference. There has been much discussion regarding
> the cost of a FOSS4G in the lists - we believe that communications and
> outreach is key to raising awareness for our conference. We will also
> coordinate with the Boston LOC!
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
> > On 14 Feb 2017, at 16:49, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Mark and Dar es Salaam 2018 LOC,
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 2:49 AM, Mark Iliffe <markiliffe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hello Conference List,
> >>
> >> As the co-chair of FOSS4G 2018 in Dar es Salaam, I’d like to provide an
> >> update on our progress and make a few requests. Currently our LOC is
> >> starting on the organising our conference - we’ve already started to
> reach
> >> out throughout the wider local tech/geo ecosystem to seed/raise aware of
> >> FOSS4G, formed internal committees around program, logistics and
> outreach.
> >> Hopefully, well ahead of schedule!
> >
> > Great!
> >
> >>
> >> In this light, our LOC has a few questions that we’d like to raise:
> >>
> >> Who is our nominated liaison on the OSGeo board - assuming this is
> Maria,
> >> but we’d like to confirm.
> >
> > I'm not quite sure what you're discussing.  Are you talking about the
> > financial oversight role that has happened in some past year?  Or are
> > you talking about a Board member who gives reports to the Board?
> > There should probably be a motion for that either at the Conference
> > Committee or Board depending on which of those roles you're
> > discussing.
> >
> >> How can we get access to 2018.foss4g.org? We would like prepare our
> landing
> >> page and outreach blitz in preparation for launch at Boston;
> >>
> >
> > This and really all OSGeo infrastructure requests or questions go
> > through an OSGeo SAC ticket,
> > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC#Task_Tracking.  Make sure to set the
> > component or they might not get it.  Referencing similar old SAC
> > tickets could be useful too,
> > https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/search?q=dns+foss4g&noquickjump=1&ticket=on
> >
> > You bring up Boston which is great.  You'll want to coordinate with
> > them until the conclusion of the 2017 event.
> >
> >>
> >> In time, I’m sure we’ll raise more questions, and in my duties as
> co-chair
> >> I’ll keep this list updated with our progress.
> >
> > Thanks, Eli
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook#Website
> >>
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