[foss4g2014] Birds of a Feather wiki

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Wed Aug 27 16:48:55 PDT 2014


Wow Matt thanks, this is very helpful.  Are there also rooms available 
at the end of day?  (at past FOSS4Gs, there typically was an hour or so 
at the end of the day's sessions, that could be used for BOFs) But if 
not, having all these timeslots through the day is really great!!

-jeff



On 2014-08-27 7:14 PM, Matt Sayler wrote:
> Added a rough skeleton for the BoFs (someone with better wiki skills is
> free to re-organize into something easier to work with). We'll have 3
> rooms available each day. I made 1 hour blocks during times I think
> everyone will agree are ok. We can potentially add slots during
> keynotes, lunch, etc., but we just haven't discussed it formally.
> Likewise, 1 hour blocks are just guidelines, not hard and fast. I should
> have room capacity numbers soon-ish as well if that's helpful.
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> Feedback welcome on all points.
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> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Jeff McKenna
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
> wrote:
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>     Hi all!
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>     I was just thinking of BOFs at the Portland event, so I went
>     searching online and couldn't find a reference to its wiki page (I
>     did find a recent press release mentioning BOFs there, but no link
>     to a page).
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>     Refresher: BOFs are self-organized, but we do need to give attendees
>     a wiki page so they can sign up, and the wiki page should list what
>     timeslots, and rooms, are available to use.
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>     So I created a wiki page:
>     http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/__FOSS4G_2014_BirdsOfAFeather
>     <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2014_BirdsOfAFeather>
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>     It would be great if someone with "boots on the ground" could edit
>     that page with details of rooms and timeslots, then we can announce
>     it on the Discuss list (or in your future press releases).
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>     Thanks all!
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>     -jeff
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