[OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Conference resources working group

[María Arias de Reyna]

Hi!

This has been largely discussed for years and never implemented (well,
Steven Feldman did his part on the sponsorship team in 2021) so I am all
for it! Thanks Luca!


On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 4:24 PM Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:

> Hi Luca and all,
>
> That sounds like a great idea!
>
> Best regards, Eli
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> *From:* Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Astrid
> Emde (OSGeo) via Discuss <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 28, 2022 11:15 PM
> *To:* Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* OSGeo-Conf <conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org>; OSGeo Discussions <
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> *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Conference resources working
> group
>
> Hello Luca, hello all,
>
> thanks Luca for the idea. I support it strongly. We have such a
> structure for the FOSSGIS conference too and it helps a lot.
>
> I added my name to the page and I am happy to support FOSS4Gs.
>
> See you Astrid
>
> Am 29.08.2022 07:33 schrieb Luca Delucchi:
> > Dear Conference committee, OSGeo friends;
> >
> > working on the FOSS4G and SotM 2022 organization I was able to see two
> > different types of organization for the two conferences. I really like
> > the idea of having a working group helping the LOC team that OSM
> > foundation has, this helps a lot to simplify the work of LOC.
> > So in these days I spoke with some people about my idea to create a
> > working group in helping the different LOCs to have a successful
> > FOSS4G (mainly the international one but it could also be done with
> > regional if needed, for example setting up or helping with pretalx).
> > Most of the people I spoke with really liked the idea so I added it to
> > the board meeting and all the members supported the idea. I already
> > found some people interested in being part of this working group.
> >
> > This new group is not a replacement of the Conference Committee
> > because they have two different purposes:
> > - the Conference Committee has to put out the bid and choose the best
> > candidate
> > - the Conference resources (final name has to be decided but this is a
> > good proposal of Michael) has to help the chosen candidate to set up a
> > good FOSS4G and simplify the work and it is a operative entity
> >
> > I started a wiki page [0] and I'll be working on that in the next
> > weeks, if you are interested to be part of and support this working
> > group please add your name.
> >
> > I would like to have the first meeting by the end of September, after
> > having a call with FOSS4G 2023 team.
> >
> > [0] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Resources
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