[Foss4g2009] FOSS4G and Ignite Spatial

[Cameron Shorter]

Mark,
I like your idea of extending the Lightening Talks on 22 Oct to ~ an 
hour, possibly reducing the time for labs/presentations, and getting 
Stephen to take run it.
Program at:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pm1bvJQodiW3WBYGU7MM0Og&hl=en_GB

Mark Leslie wrote:
> I like the idea of this, but I'm very hesitant to start mixing it with 
> other events, as in points 2 and 3.  Looking over out schedule, we do 
> have a half hour block for lightning talks which have a similar format 
> (Thursday 9-9:30) which are bracketed by keynote speakers.  This 
> itself seems a little odd.  Personally I would be happier putting both 
> keynotes first and then running the Ignite session.  Since we have yet 
> to fill one keynote slot, we could extend the session to an hour.  
> That assumes that Stephan, and any of the Ignite crowd that would take 
> part, would be delegates at the conference.
>
> The idea to have the Ignite event before the conference and invite the 
> speakers to give sneak previews is brilliant, but 'before the 
> conference' in our case is two days before most speakers will be 
> arriving in Sydney.  We could put it after the workshops on the first 
> day, but nobody will be happy losing the welcome reception, and the 
> pub is a terrible venue for this event.
>
> Stephan,
> I would be very happy for you to help out on the workshop staging.  If 
> you want to sign up for the workshops mailing list at 
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference-workshops, I'll be 
> trying to organise people through there before the conference, both 
> volunteers and workshop presenters.  I expect fairly low volume until 
> the month before the conference :)
>
> -- 
> Mark
>
>
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Stephen, thanks for forwarding to the list.
>>
>> As mentioned on the phone, I think you have some good ideas here, and 
>> I'm interested to hear what the others on the committee think.
>>
>> A couple of options come to mind, probably with a number of tweaks on 
>> both sides
>>
>> 1. Have the talk on the Monday night before the workshops. Focus more 
>> on proprietary vendors and hence provide a different angle to the 
>> conference.
>>
>> 2. Replace the existing welcome reception. This already has a pub 
>> venue set up.
>> Downside is that people will likely be wanting to talk to each other 
>> and not listening in.
>>
>> 3. Make this part of the existing "Demo Theatre" which is planned to 
>> be run as part of lunches and morning teas during the conference.
>>
>> Stephen Lead wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I've only just heard about FOSS4G and signed up to the mailing 
>>> lists. I've been working in GIS for the past 10 years in Australia 
>>> and the UK, mainly using (not very free or open source) proprietary 
>>> software. I'm currently contracting at the NSW Department of Lands 
>>> in a GIS role.
>>>
>>> I run an event in Sydney called Ignite Spatial 
>>> <http://www.ignitespatial.com/> - it's a presentation evening for 
>>> GIS and mapping folks with a "lightning talks" format, where each 
>>> presenter gets exactly 5 minutes to give their presentation.
>>>
>>> To get an idea of Ignite Spatial, check ou the presentations here 
>>> <http://www.ignitespatial.com/?page_id=13> - some good examples are 
>>> Chris O'Dell, Diana Mounter or Richard Lane. I also run Ignite 
>>> Sydney, where presenters can speak about any topic they like. 
>>> There's a great presentation here 
>>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UYZtjQICiM&feature=channel_page%20> 
>>> which talks about Lean programming - this gives a good idea of the 
>>> possibilities of the Ignite format.
>>>
>>> Do you think that FOSS4G would be interested in doing a tie-in, and 
>>> running an Ignite Spatial event one evening during your conference?
>>>
>>> One option would be to run it on the first night of conference as a 
>>> welcoming party, and have some of your speakers give a 5 minute 
>>> overview of their presentations. This would allow people to decide 
>>> which presentations to attend.
>>>
>>> Another option is simply to run it on one of the evenings as an open 
>>> event whereby any of the attendees is able to give a presentation on 
>>> something Spatial.
>>>
>>> Entrance would be free to anyone who wishes to attend. We would 
>>> expect around 150 of "our" people to attend, so if FOSS4G attendees 
>>> were also coming we'd need a bigger venue - is this something that 
>>> FOSS4G could organise at the convention centre?
>>>
>>> I'm also interested in helping out with stage managing some of the 
>>> workshops or sessions in the conference, if this is of interest to you.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> 0410 638 348
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