[OSGeo-Conf] Fwd: [Board] Request for support of FOSS4G SotM Oceania community day

Till Adams till.adams at fossgis.de
Tue Jul 31 06:39:17 PDT 2018


Hi,

wil be there from sunday evening until saturday morning. Perhaps we
dirctly start with wednesday after the conference?

I will suggest a BoF to DLOC, okay?

Till


Am 31.07.2018 um 15:11 schrieb michael terner:
> +1 on scheduling an F2F meeting of Conference Comm while in Dar.
> I will be there Weds AM (arriving Tues evening) - Saturday PM.
>
> MT
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 8:34 AM Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com
> <mailto:shfeldman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'll be in Dar, Tuesday to Saturday morning. Let's try to schedule
>     a conference committee f2f
>
>     Regards
>     Steven
>
>
>     +44 (0) 7958 924101
>     Sent from my iPhone
>
>     On 31 Jul 2018, at 14:02, Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de
>     <mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de>> wrote:
>
>>     Cool, I guess Steven wil be in Dar as well, so we should find
>>     some time for this ;-)
>>
>>
>>     Till
>>
>>
>>
>>     Am 31.07.2018 um 13:02 schrieb María Arias de Reyna:
>>>     Hi,
>>>
>>>     We already started on FOSS4GE this conversation about future of
>>>     TGP with Steven Feldman and how to escalate it. He has some
>>>     interesting ideas we should discuss. 
>>>
>>>     El mar., 31 jul. 2018 12:56, Jeff McKenna
>>>     <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>>>     <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> escribió:
>>>
>>>         Hi Till,
>>>
>>>         Thanks for this advice, I agree with this plan.  I also
>>>         think a decision
>>>         structure for handling TGP must be set up as soon as
>>>         possible (and if it
>>>         is not the Board or the Conference Committee, then maybe a new
>>>         committee/team of volunteers, who manage this TGP process). 
>>>         -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         On 2018-07-31 6:40 AM, Till Adams wrote:
>>>         > Dear @Board, @ConfCom
>>>         >
>>>         > AFAIK there is still some TGP money left (we spent 10 out
>>>         of 20k on the
>>>         > global TGP, but nothing for any regional event yet). I
>>>         would suggest to
>>>         > accept this request, as it is not too much money and then
>>>         use it in
>>>         > order to promote this as a "sign" to other regional/local
>>>         event
>>>         > organizers...
>>>         >
>>>         > What we need is a procedure on how to decide on such
>>>         requests in general
>>>         > - if we make a frist comes/first-run serves on TGP money,
>>>         we will
>>>         > probably run out of money quite early and events earlier
>>>         in the year are
>>>         > prefered.
>>>         >
>>>         > Perhaps we could get the regional events on requesting for
>>>         money in
>>>         > advance before a defined deadline, so we can have an
>>>         overview on all
>>>         > regional events that request for TGP money once a year and
>>>         then decide
>>>         > on it? Maybe somehow difficult to handle, but in the end
>>>         the same
>>>         > procedure as the call for locations for the global event.
>>>         >
>>>         > Maybe a point to be discussed in Dar?
>>>         >
>>>         > Till
>>>         >
>>>         >
>>>         > Am 30.07.2018 um 17:26 schrieb Jeff McKenna:
>>>         >> Hi Alex & FOSS4G-SotM Oceania committee,
>>>         >>
>>>         >> Please note that the OSGeo Board meeting this Wednesday
>>>         (maybe
>>>         >> Thursday your time) has been moved to an hour earlier.
>>>         >>
>>>         >> time:
>>>         >>
>>>         https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2018&month=8&day=1&hour=15&min=0&sec=0
>>>         >> agenda: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-08-01
>>>         >>
>>>         >> -jeff
>>>         >>
>>>         >>
>>>         >>
>>>         >> On 2018-07-08 10:52 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>>         >>> Hi Alex, John,
>>>         >>>
>>>         >>> OSGeo is happy to support community day events such as
>>>         this; I've
>>>         >>> added it to the next Board meeting agenda, that will
>>>         occur on 1st
>>>         >>> August.  It would be great to have you or John attend
>>>         the IRC meeting
>>>         >>> then, to discuss this topic for approval (exact time of
>>>         the meeting
>>>         >>> is still to be confirmed):
>>>         >>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-08-01
>>>         >>>
>>>         >>> For others: the request is for 1,475 USD
>>>         >>>
>>>         >>> Thanks Alex!
>>>         >>>
>>>         >>> -jeff
>>>         >>>
>>>         >>>
>>>         >>>
>>>         >>>
>>>         >>>
>>>         >>> On 2018-07-08 7:34 AM, Alex Leith wrote:
>>>         >>>> Dear OSGeo Board members
>>>         >>>>
>>>         >>>> I am writing on behalf of the FOSS4G SotM Oceania
>>>         Conference
>>>         >>>> Committee. Myself (Alex Leith) and John Bryant are
>>>         chairs of this
>>>         >>>> conference organising committee, and we have our
>>>         inaugural event
>>>         >>>> planned for November this year in Melbourne, Australia.
>>>         For more
>>>         >>>> information, see: https://foss4g-oceania.org/.
>>>         >>>>
>>>         >>>> In accordance with the code sprint sponsorship
>>>         guidelines here:
>>>         >>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Code_Sprint_Guidelines we
>>>         would like to
>>>         >>>> submit an application for sponsorship for our
>>>         'Community Day', which
>>>         >>>> will include code sprints on various OSGeo and related
>>>         projects, in
>>>         >>>> addition to mapathons on OpenStreetMap. The specific
>>>         activities will
>>>         >>>> be community driven.
>>>         >>>>
>>>         >>>> Our application document is here:
>>>         >>>>
>>>         https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fKPn5tF8z3edeiidlPBShA5H3xR0mstdKyqG-VwlRrQ/edit?usp=sharing.
>>>         >>>>
>>>         >>>>
>>>         >>>> We would welcome discussion of this sponsorship
>>>         request, and John
>>>         >>>> and I can make ourselves available to you for this.
>>>         >>>>
>>>         >>>> I look forward to hearing from you.
>>>         >>>>
>>>         >>>> Kind regards,
>>>         >>>>
>>>         >>>> Alex Leith
>>>         >>>> FOSS4G SotM Oceania Co-Chair
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