[foss4g2014] Institutionalized aspects of FOSS4G (was: Work Party?)

[Eli Adam]

Changed subject to try and not distract people from the work party...

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org> wrote:
> Yes, I believe so. We're working on consolidating a list.
>

Previous LOCs and chairs have been very helpful and kind and shared
all resources requested.

> I've been wondering if it wouldn't make sense to have a shared CRM that all
> FOSS4G-related events could use.
>
> (The lack of resources carrying automatically from year to year
> independently of the LOC is a big gripe I've had lately... The hodgepodge of
> sponsor and attendee information being prime examples..)
>

I've thought about this too (in the time that I've spent establishing
media partners), "Shouldn't there already be a FOSS4G media partner
list?"  I've almost written conference-dev about several items but
have avoided that since it may turn into a long discussion when I need
to be completing tasks.

Occasionally FOSS4G chairs and LOCs go quiet after the conferences.  I
was thinking of having a past LOCs BOF to see how much agreement there
is within various past LOCs about 'how things should be done'.

If there is strong agreement, then work with the conference committee
to establish these.  If LOCs can't agree Mail Chimp or Constant
Contact, Basecamp or TeamworkPM or wiki or shared google drive, or
other items then we don't have to talk about it and folks can
reminisce about their stories of past years and recommend to the
conference committee, "you can't herd cats".

>From my personal perspective on our LOC, I encourage Darrell to make a
list and save it for later and devote his time to other LOC things.
>From my personal perspective as an OSGeo Community member, I encourage
Darrell/us to work on establishing some more institutionalized FOSS4G
items that pass from PDX to next year and hopefully continuing.
Sometimes the perspectives align and we achieve both goals, other
times they conflict and then we have to weigh time and tasks.

One way to achieve continuity of accumulated knowledge is to give a
longer lead time on bids.  I wish I had been on the Nottingham LOC,
not that I am anywhere near the UK, in an appropriate time zone for
interacting, or anything else, but that I could have learned all the
details as it went along and then just continued some aspects into
this year in PDX.  I'm hoping that the next bid goes out and is
decided shortly.  I'd like one or more members of the next LOC to join
PDX and learn and continue whatever aspects are worthwhile.

Eli

> d.
>
> On Jan 31, 2014, at 11:32, David William Bitner <bitner at dbspatial.com>
> wrote:
>
> Darrell,
>
> Just checking, we've given y'all contacts for FOSS4GNA sponsors, right? I
> think we got those to Eli a while ago.
>
> bit
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Eli and I are planning a work party tomorrow. We'd love to have some more
>> attendance.
>>
>> Is anyone interested? We're thinking about 10 or 11am PST.
>>
>> We have a lot of work todo on sponsors, both identifying and writing
>> letters to big past sponsors as well as several writing tasks.
>>
>> Eli will be working remotely, so we can do a Hangout for those folks who
>> aren't local.
>>
>> Darrell
>>
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