[FOSS4G-Oceania] ResBaz Sydney - lightning talk opportunity, 9:45am Thursday 5 July

Wed Jul 4 21:18:25 PDT 2018

Thanks heaps Cameron! I’m still sad to have missed it, and thankful you
could step up.

Cheers

Adam

On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 at 14:13, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> FOSS4G committee,
>
> The FOSS4G lightning talk I presented went down fine, although the crowd
> had thinned out because we had some exciting streams to compete with. (I
> have to confess I was very tempted to attend an AI stream myself).
>
> In particular, I had a chat with Adela, and (sorry I haven't got the
> names, - was it John and Peter?)
>
> They are talking about coming to FOSS4G and about setting up a workshop
> based on OSGeoLive - which I reckon we can align with the other workshop
> proposal email thread that is running.
>
> Apparently we missed a bunch of spatial people who attended an R workshop
> yesterday. I think Adela will be able to forward on FOSS4G details.
>
> Cheers, Cameron
>
> On 4/7/18 9:31 pm, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
> Thanks for the feedback Adam,
>
> I've added your suggestions:
>
> - academic track submissions will be peer reviewed
> - proceedings will be published here:
> https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/
>
> On 3/7/18 11:43 pm, adam steer wrote:
>
> HI Cameron, all
>
> Thanks for making some slides happen at short notice. I think the audience
> will be an easy sell :)
>
> I was planning to emphasise the presence of an academic track - since the
> lure of a publication may be the only way the crowd at ResBaz can get
> funding to attend the conference, or more importantly justify time to
> prepare contributions.
>
> Key items:
>
> - academic track submissions will be peer reviewed
> - proceedings will be published here:
> https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/
>
> Also to note - many of the lightning talk attendees will have just sat
> through two days of software and data carpentry workshops - so another
> angle might be ‘you’ve just learned some coding stuff, now come see some
> ways to apply it…'
>
> Just a thought - I may be completely misreading the
> audience/scope/environment.
>
> and thanks again!
>
> Adam
>
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>
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 at 22:00, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've put a draft set of slides together here:
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e5rwAqhuEKXS0a3wDOYT3emoCJQFSYRdJmIuD3ZsHWg/edit#slide=id.g3cc2ea1f28_0_40
>>
>> As there is only a 5 minute pitch, I'm aiming to focus on:
>>
>> * Why would you be interested in Maps?
>>
>> * Why would you be interested in Open?
>>
>> * Why would you do to FOSS4G?
>>
>> On 2/7/18 3:19 pm, Martin Tomko wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am off for leave tomorrow, and scraping to finalise work today. ResBaz
>> is an informal gathering for pgrad students, usually start of PhD research
>> or Masters students. Should be fun.Main thing is to not scare them away
>> from spatial/OS. The aim of the program is to expose them to do “X” in a
>> given computational tool, not make them experts in “X”.
>>
>>
>>
>> M.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *FOSS4G-Oceania <foss4g-oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
>> <foss4g-oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of adam steer
>> <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> <adam.d.steer at gmail.com>
>> *Date: *Monday, 2 July 2018 at 2:17 pm
>> *To: *John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
>> *Cc: *"foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org" <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
>> <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org> <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
>> *Subject: *Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] ResBaz Sydney - lightning talk
>> opportunity, 9:45am Thursday 5 July
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Cameron - thanks! I’ll contact you and the ResBaz organisers off-list
>> shortly.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please feel free to reach out to Martin and Sarah for additional input.
>> My 5min pitch was going to be more or less:
>>
>>
>>
>> - title slide showing essentially the web site front page
>>
>> - one slide explainer of what is FOSS4G and SotM (again directly nipped
>> from web materials) and why it’s relevant to researchers (you use the
>> things!)
>>
>> - one or two slides showing a bunch of OSgeo supported projects and SotM
>> activities (try to help people identify with things they use in their
>> research)
>>
>> - a slide explaining the academic stream, and where papers would be
>> published
>>
>> - final slide - key dates and costs
>>
>>
>>
>> Among those, also working in key items:
>>
>>
>>
>> - the TGP/good mojo program
>>
>> - community review process for presentations (blind review followed by
>> committee curation with a progressive stack in mind)
>>
>> - who are the keynotes
>>
>> - exhortation to submit papers and workshops!
>>
>>
>>
>> The end.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 at 08:29, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for jumping in there Cameron. Just having a quick look at the
>> ResBaz website <https://resbaz.github.io/resbaz2018/sydney/>, it's
>> targeted at researchers, so perhaps Martin & Sarah will have some
>> additional input on key messages to get across?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
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