[FOSS4G-Oceania] Fwd: Potential Georabble during event week

[Andrew Harvey]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, at 12:17 PM, John Bryant wrote:
> OK, we'd better wrap this one up. My read of it is there's general
> consensus on keeping the Thursday evening open for a Georabble. I'm
> hopeful we can generate a bit of a buzz around it, and draw from the
> wider geospatial crowd.> 
> I'll carry on the discussion with the Georabble organisers and we'll
> see if we can pin them down on that date.> 
> As many of you know, the way Georabbles usually work is 4 or 5 short
> (10 minute) talks about something spatial, with an emphasis on the
> rules, which include 'no sales pitches'. It'd be interesting to see if
> they'd accept some talks about open source/open data, surely there
> will be a plethora of people around our conf that would be able to
> deliver something interesting! In my experience, the Georabble talks
> are often just the first 4 or 5 talks that the organisers find through
> their networks. With that in mind, if you know of someone who'd give a
> great 10 min talk, encourage them to get in touch with the Melbourne
> Georabble folks! Rules[1] are here.
Your approach sounds great.

My advice is try not to make it a sales pitch for  a specific product
instead try to pitch an idea or experience you have/had.
I gave a talk about OpenStreetMap once, in hind sight it might have been
too much of a sales pitch, though I tried to keep it focused on generic
concepts like the community nature of mappers, open/flexible tagging
system, the diversity of people mapping leading to a more diverse map
with demos of what you get from an open data map (maps, directions,
analysis), all being applicable to other mapping projects to try to
avoid being a sales pitch for OSM.
Links:

  1. https://georabble.org/about/
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