[FOSS4G-Oceania] Community Day - tentpole and long tail events

[Andrew Harvey]

> I think the alternative would be to focus on three-ish tentpole events
> (Missing Maps, OSGeo codesprint, QGIS?), and have other people
> interested in running events email us directly to limit the number of
> projects offered.
I think we should ask for and welcome community day submissions. Whether
that's an online for or email us I don't think it matters, never know
what good ideas might come forward.
The main problem I see is it's really going to depend on who's attending
the community day and what their interests are.
So if there are a few people interested in doing QGIS development it
makes sense to run a focused QGIS development event.
If there are people interested in working on an OSM import, then we
can run that.
Some ideas I had are:
 * OpenAddresses
   * Automating source updates
   * Analysis to compare coverage with OSM
   * Detecting differences between the GNAF and other sources
 * OpenStreetMap
   * Preparing or doing an import
   * Analysis to compare OSM with other open data
   * A focused mapping task
But again, only makes sense to run these if there are people coming
interested in this.
On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, at 8:22 PM, David Dean wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I didn't get a change to be around for the end of discussion of the
> community day, but I understand there is some concern that calling for
> proposals similar to what we have at
> https://foss4g-oceania.org/attend/community-day/community-day-proposal
> (which, while live, is not linked from anywhere) may lead to a chaotic
> community day with too many projects for people to choose from.> 
> I think the alternative would be to focus on three-ish tentpole events
> (Missing Maps, OSGeo codesprint, QGIS?), and have other people
> interested in running events email us directly to limit the number of
> projects offered.> 
> There were also suggestions of wikis and mailing lists, but from my
> experience with organising OSM events is that most non-technical
> people don't want to deal with that sort of things, and would prefer
> to use webforms and eventbrite-like registration.> 
> I personally would like to make the form active for people to propose
> projects in the lead up to the conference, and then something like
> eventbrite (or a registration form on our website) where community
> contributors can indicate the projects they are going to work on. We
> could handle a few non-shows and a few people turning up without
> registering, but we would obviously prefer if they did.> 
> Discuss! In particular, it would help be if you can explain why we
> *shouldn't* be making the project proposal form live, and what we
> should do alternatively, if not.> 
> Thanks everyone!
> 
> - David
> -- 
> http://dbdean.com
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