You may be missing how spread our leaders are and how they often have responsibilities to represent their communities, projects and employers.<br><br>Also there is this distraction of trying to attend a conference you paid to attended. As you recall in 2009 it was very hard to ask for volunteers due to this tension - making the both into a meeting place is a good idea. In also remember it turning into a USB factory in Denver. <br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 8:41 PM Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Am I missing something?<br>
At my only FOSS4G event I've managed to attend, (in 2009), I wanted to<br>
be at the OSGeo booth. It was the place that people came to talk about<br>
OSGeo and an excellent place to meet people.<br>
<br>
I'd be inclined to suggest that if you are a community leader, possibly<br>
someone already listed on the OSGeo Advocates list, then my not plan to<br>
hang out and meet interesting people at the OSGeo booth.<br>
<br>
FOSS4G Organising committee, I suggest setting your base as the OSGeo<br>
Booth. People and people will come looking for you there.<br>
<br>
Cheers, Cameron<br>
<br>
On 10/03/2016 6:24 pm, <a href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de" target="_blank">till.adams@fossgis.de</a> wrote:<br>
> Hi Jody,<br>
><br>
> I guess ,that there will be several FOSSGIS members on the conference<br>
> to staff the booth, but as you said, probably difficult to schedule<br>
> that before the conference program is there - but it will be there by<br>
> end of April, so afterwards there is still enough time to staff the<br>
> booth.<br>
><br>
> Till<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Am 2016-03-09 22:31, schrieb Jody Garnett:<br>
>> Thanks Dirk, it would be *great* to see the OSGeo booth staffed this<br>
>> year, rather than simply setup.<br>
>><br>
>> Could we ask a local chapter to sign up for a "day" of the conference<br>
>> and sort out a schedule among their members? I know a schedule will be<br>
>> hard to pin down until the conference program is set and everyone can<br>
>> determine their attendance.<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Jody Garnett<br>
>><br>
>> On 9 March 2016 at 07:03, Dirk Frigne <<a href="mailto:dirk.frigne@geosparc.com" target="_blank">dirk.frigne@geosparc.com</a> [5]><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> The board OSGeo decided to be represented at the next FOSS4G<br>
>>> conference<br>
>>> in Bonn [1].<br>
>>><br>
>>> At any given time, we need someone who can answer questions about<br>
>>> OSGeo<br>
>>> Foundation and projects.<br>
>>><br>
>>> As a community of volunteers, we want to ask you and the local<br>
>>> chapters<br>
>>> to help with finding volunteers for staffing the booth during the<br>
>>> event.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Please forward this information to your local members planning to<br>
>>> come<br>
>>> to Bonn and ask them to register as a volunteer on the wiki by<br>
>>> adding<br>
>>> their name under the volunteers section [2].<br>
>>><br>
>>> Dirk<br>
>>><br>
>>> [1] <a href="http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html</a> [1]<br>
>>> [2] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth</a> [2]<br>
>>><br>
>>> _______________________________________________<br>
>>> Discuss mailing list<br>
>>> <a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a> [3]<br>
>>> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a> [4]<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Links:<br>
>> ------<br>
>> [1] <a href="http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://2016.foss4g.org/home.html</a><br>
>> [2] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_OSGeo_Booth</a><br>
>> [3] mailto:<a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
>> [4] <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br>
>> [5] mailto:<a href="mailto:dirk.frigne@geosparc.com" target="_blank">dirk.frigne@geosparc.com</a><br>
><br>
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