[FOSS4G-Oceania] Letter of Intent to host FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2019 in Wellington, NZ

[Daniel Silk]

Awesome Greg!

There are actually a lot of events that are likely to be held in Nov 2019 - there are multiple regional GIS conferences held in November in NZ, potentially the NZ Geospatial Research Conference (which I’ve heard might be co-located with GeoComputation 2019 in November next year?), ISCRAM Asia Pacific was held in Wellington this month but not sure where / if it will be in 2019, plus the Pacific RS & GIS conference. 

So I think the date needs some discussion again.

We could potentially look at holding the conference the same week as the NZSEA Awards as that usually attracts a number of the spatial industry to Wellington and was held on Oct 17 this year.

That will be a great place to start in early December!


> On 12/11/2018, at 3:49 PM, Greg Lauer <gregory.lauer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> Great start - my only comment is that should you put a proposed date for the event (assuming mid Nov 2018)?
> 
> I would like to add myself to the organising team, and as part of that take responsibility for the proposed Travel Grant Program for 2019. We have have learnt a lot this year with the TPG and hope to grow it significantly in 2019. Hopefully we can get NZAID/MFAT on board amongst others.
> 
> Note that myself (and Jonah I think) will be in Fiji for the South Pacific GIS Conference so hopefully we can use that to encourage participation.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Greg
> 
>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 12:31 PM Daniel Silk <dwsilk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all
>> 
>> I am pleased to submit a letter of intent to host FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2019 in Wellington, New Zealand.
>> 
>> It's early days, and there are many more people and organisations that I'm yet to reach out to - but I strongly believe that Wellington would be a great host city for a successful event.
>> 
>> We have a lot to discuss at the committee gatherings in Melbourne next week regarding what has worked and what hasn't, and we should put that into immediate effect by passing it on to the next committee.
>> 
>> I would also be extremely grateful if anyone on the existing committee would like me to add their name to the team for next year. As Cameron has previously mentioned, having an extremely engaged committee has made this a rewarding experience, and I hope that continues.
>> 
>> I am keen to hear any feedback or concerns regarding this proposal. If it is the only forthcoming proposal and the committee accepts it, I would also be happy to announce it during the closing of the next week's (!) conference in Melbourne.
>> 
>> Many thanks
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
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