[Foss4g2009] Website Submissions

[Cameron Shorter]

OSGeo conference committee,

Simon asks a number of questions about setting up our website below 
which can probably be answered by someone involved in prior conferences.

If you can point us at text for previous related texts, then please send 
it through.

mapbutcher wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have made a series of changes to the current site which can be 
> viewed here:
>
> http://www.mapbutcher.com/foss4g2009/
>
> Note there is a new left hand menu option: Programme with the 
> following sub menu items:
>
>     * Conference Schedule
>     * Speakers
>     * Presentations
>     * Workshops
>     * Tutorials
>     * Posters
>     * CCIP
>     * Events & Activities
>     * Submission Guidelines
>
> I have added what content I can at this stage - the main focus has 
> been around the Submission Guidelines and Workshop pages. 
> The Submission Guidelines page contains guidance and links to our OCS 
> instance which I have set up. I can't make the scheduled meeting this 
> week because of work commitments - perhaps the following can be added 
> to the agenda?
>
>    1. Do we want to provide Author Guidelines?
>    2. Tim, can you supply some blurb for the speaker page?
>    3. Could someone provide a description of the tutorial format so we
>       can add this to the tutorial page?
>    4. When should we open call for tutorial submissions?
>    5. Anybody want to add content for the poster page - Jody do you
>       have experience from previous years?
>    6. When should we open call for poster submissions - what is the
>       format of the submission?
>    7. Cameron are you happy with the CCIP page - any more input?
>
Yes, looks good.
>
>    1. Events and activities - if we're happy with Shelbourne shall we
>       add this as the 'welcome reception drinks'?
>    2. Submission Acknowledgement email - Cameron within OCS we can
>       configure the submission acknowledgement email - could you
>       scratch something together?
>    3. Presentation Themes - are we going to have a set of suggested
>       themes?
>
Yes: "Climate Change", and "User Driven", which means "How to 
integration Open Source into existing systems".
> Can all OC members please create an account in OCS if they do not 
> already have one - and I will add them into the organising team page 
> within the OCS instance + I'd like us to test the submission process 
> to iron out issues before 2nd Feb.
Created an account for me: camerons
>
> In relation to workshops:
>
> Mark wrote on the 13th Jan:
>
> "Scanning through the docs, I don't see any plan as to how we will be 
> accepting submissions.  I would expect setting up a word-doc or pdf 
> template and getting people to just email them in is fine, there 
> shouldn't be an unwieldy volume.  Unfortunately, since the workshop 
> pages of previous conferences seem to get retasked with descriptions 
> of the selected workshops, I don't actually have previous instructions 
> or templates.  Can anybody direct me to some?"
>
> Are you happy for us to push the submissions through OCS - can you 
> give it a whirl - do we need to make changes etc?
>
> Mark - If you create an OCS account I'll add you as 'track director' 
> for the workshops
> Mark - should we add in a blurb about the workshop submissions into 
> the track policy on the OCS 
> instance?: http://conference.osgeo.org/index.php/foss4g2009/sydney/schedConf/trackPolicies
>
> Simon
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