[Foss4g2009] FOSS4G and Ignite Spatial

[Mark Leslie]

If we are going to remove tutorial sessions (there are no labs) we need 
to decide this /immediately/ as we are in the middle of selecting tutorials.

> 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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