[FOSS4G-Oceania] Melbourne Georabble last night

[Martin Tomko]

Yep, it was well done and well received.
Who were your DELWP contacts? I did not know they are into OS, they are an ESRI shop form what I know. Would be nice to engage.

Re student pricing – A usual constraint that we should not ios:

  *   The student must be a presenter;
  *   The student must be the lead author on the paper/presentation ( so we do not sponsor some professors presentation).
  *   And as discussed, the student should help us running the event as volunteer to some capacity.
  *   If we have a limited number of these discounts ( we should limit it, I cannot recall the discussion) then it should be first come, first served, or based on some evaluation of their papers/presentations, this needs to be made clear ( maybe first option, so we know who we get as volunteers asap).
M.

From: FOSS4G-Oceania <foss4g-oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com>
Date: Friday, 27 July 2018 at 9:23 am
To: John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
Cc: "foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org" <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Melbourne Georabble last night

Nice work John!

On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 at 09:20 John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com<mailto:johnwbryant at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi all, FYI:

Last night I gave a very short (2 or 3 min) presentation at Melbourne GeoRabble about FOSS4G SotM Oceania. I've saved the slides here<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YHJRYxEzkeFex2iztFOcBIWcbPcKNd2iXgBYKyabsSM>, feel free to re-use, re-purpose, share as you see fit.

It went very well, and seemed to generate a fair bit of buzz. I gave away a bunch of stickers, and had some interesting conversations with keen people afterwards. There were ~100 people there (biggest GeoRabble I've ever seen!), and it felt like a very effective way to get the word out.

So, some important outcomes to share:

  *   I met a woman named Vasiti Soko, from Fiji, who is currently living, working, & studying in Melbourne. We've had a few email exchanges in the past regarding the conference, but I hadn't realised she is currently based here. In any case, she's enthusiastic about this event, and would be pleased to contribute somehow. I recommend we invite her to join our committee, if she's willing - I believe she would have a lot to contribute.
  *   Student pricing: I was asked twice why we don't have student pricing - as you'll recall, we recently decided to introduce a student discount, but we haven't publicised this yet. I will update the website today, and I think we should put out some info about this change ASAP. Does anyone want to help with that, today? I will put something out this weekend, one way or the other. Martin, Sarah - are there academic track considerations here, or do we just put the word out and let it happen?
  *   DELWP: I met a number of people in the Vic state gov department of DELWP<https://www2.delwp.vic.gov.au/>, who are very enthusiastic about open source spatial, and some of whom had never heard of this event. I've been trying to get through to DELWP, but haven't been able to make it past my original contact. I will follow through on these new contacts today, and try to secure a meeting at their offices. DELWP is probably one of the biggest employers of spatial people in Melbourne, and represents a big opportunity to spread the word within a major influencing body.
Also, Phillip Mallis gave a presentation on Maptime Melbourne's work doing humanitarian OSM mapping, which was well received and will hopefully add to the buzz around MM's events as well as ours.

All in all, it felt like a great way to let people know about our event... I would encourage any of you who have a GeoRabble coming up in your hometown to try and get the chance to spread the word!

Cheers
John
_______________________________________________
FOSS4G-Oceania mailing list
FOSS4G-Oceania at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:FOSS4G-Oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g-oceania<https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g-oceania>
--

Alex Leith
0419 189 050
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss4g-oceania/attachments/20180727/c27fc9a0/attachment-0001.html>