[FOSS4G2016] update 20.04.2016

[Jeff McKenna]

Till maybe this sprint could be the first joined FOSSGIS & OSGeo event? 
  Just wondering out loud.  The list of projects involved is excellent.

-jeff



On 2015-04-20 9:50 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hi Till,
>
> Yes, that is unfortunate that we aren't promoting this enough.  To be
> honest and open: I've seen some past OSGeo Boards that are too picky
> with helping sprints (need X number of projects involved, etc.); I don't
> think that is a reality today, today I/we are happy to support any
> sprint that follows the OSGeo mission :)
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2015-04-20 9:46 AM, Till Adams wrote:
>> Dear Jeff,
>>
>> I think nobody ever shared this on the Osgeo list up to now. Give me
>> some minutes ;-)
>>
>> Till
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 20.04.2015 14:32, schrieb Jeff McKenna:
>>> Thanks for this update Till.  Glad to hear that the "UN branding" dream
>>> is still alive!
>>>
>>> That FOSSGIS hacking event is very interesting, this is the first I've
>>> heard of it, covering so many great projects and with a cool location;
>>> please share this news on the OSGeo Discuss list also.  (or maybe I
>>> missed that message)
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2015-04-20 8:21 AM, Till Adams wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> there are some things coming motion now, so I think it is adequate to
>>>> inform you.
>>>>
>>>> Last friday I had a meeting with the chapter for business
>>>> development of
>>>> the city of bonn, with Prof. Klaus Gereve and also Bonn Tourist GmbH.
>>>>
>>>> Mr. Greve is the person organizing the EARSeL conference and also helps
>>>> in our organisation.
>>>>
>>>> First of all I asked the city representatives about possible locations
>>>> for the workshops. They will care for that for now and will come back
>>>> with a list of possible locations. I think that makes things much
>>>> easier
>>>> and wil lhelp us to get access to cheaper locaitons, because they come
>>>> from a more officially side.
>>>>
>>>> Second, Mr. Greve and I reported about our idea to connect both
>>>> conferences - at least by "exchanging" a track inside the programme.
>>>> The
>>>> next idea is to conect these single events by a common "roof", e.g.
>>>> called "Bonner summer of GIS" or something that sounds even better (any
>>>> ideas?)
>>>>
>>>> Generally the city of Bonn is very interested in such a "GIS event2
>>>> - in
>>>> sight of business development, in sight of promoting Bonn as conference
>>>> city and also to promite the Bonner Geo-Cluster. So in the moment we
>>>> are
>>>> looking for even more "geo"-related events being put in our
>>>> time-framework and want to create a lot of attention via press
>>>> statements and so on. This will also help us getting more people and
>>>> also for finding sponsors.
>>>>
>>>> Also Mr. Greve worked a lot in sight of getting the "UN branding" for
>>>> both conferences and also he worked on the possibility to get some of
>>>> the "UN reserved contingent" from WCCB especially for FOSs4G. This
>>>> would
>>>> save us a lot of money.
>>>> So this dream is still alive, we're working on that!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Inside FOSSGIS e.V. we've found a decision on how and in which
>>>> constellation we will run the conference. The last discussed
>>>> opportunities were either doing this as FOSSGIS e.V. with a seperate
>>>> bank account. We were a little bit anxious about the bunch of money
>>>> overrunning our normal financial movemets about ten to twenty times and
>>>> the reaction of the finance office, because we do not want to risk our
>>>> common public interest status.
>>>>
>>>> To prevent us from that, there is the possibility of getting a binding
>>>> information from the financial office.
>>>>
>>>> The second alternative would be to found a new company, the "FOSSGIS
>>>> GmbH"  which in the end would organize the conference and would be shut
>>>> down afterwards. Also a sure idea, but that would close the door for
>>>> saving some taxes.
>>>>
>>>> So our plans in the moment are, to try to get a positive binding
>>>> information. This might help us saving some taxes (I wrote about
>>>> that in
>>>> the proposal as you for sure all read ;-))
>>>>
>>>> If this will not work, we are going to found a company.
>>>> In general both opportunities will give us a safe base for our acting,
>>>> but of course there is a catch - it will take some weeks to fix either
>>>> opportunity and in this time, we can't open a bank account, we can't
>>>> make any binding contracts. I've communicated this already to PCO and
>>>> also to WCCB (and witrh this also to OSGeo ;-)) - until then we can't
>>>> request any money from OSGeo as well (and we couldn't spend it at all)
>>>>
>>>> Last, there is the FOSSGIS hacking weekend where I will talk to the
>>>> chair of the Küstenschmiede, who offered to create the webpage for
>>>> FOSS4G. Anybody else intereseted in joining us? See:
>>>> http://www.fossgis.de/wiki/FOSSGIS_Hacking_Event_2015_Nummer_3
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So long,
>>>>
>>>> Till
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>