[FOSS4G2016] spontaneous planning meeting today

Wed Aug 19 23:21:06 PDT 2015

Hi Andrea, @list,

I take Andreas email to sum up the idea about the "Bonner GeoSummer" in 
my own words. The good thing is - the idea is new and still open for 
other ideas. In this context, first Andreas, many thanks for your ideas 
and input.
In general your understanding is more or less correct, the main 
difference is, that not only we (the LOC) are planning calendar 
activities.

There is a group consisting of Professor Greve, who is responsible for 
the EARSEL conference, taking place in June 2016 in Bonn, us, the LOC 
FOSS4G, the administration of Bonn, the chamber of commerce Bonn, and 
some others, having the plan to connect these two big Geo-related 
conferences through this "GeoSummer". If there are suitable events, 
taking place in between, this would help us to reach our goals. The 
general idea is, to attract more and different people to the conferences 
on the one side, especially for us, to prosper the ideas of our 
community but also to promote the region here as a place, where a lot of 
geo-business and knowledge is located.

I will check your input and come back more detailed later,

so far, Till

Am 2015-08-19 16:05, schrieb Andrea Giacomelli:
> Dear Till -
>
> 1) Right now I cant think of a different name for the summer 
> campaign,
> but I surely have a track for the playlist:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BvL-i--8Ws [5]
>
> 2) ...please apologize if I am missing some parts (ore repeating
> things others know already), but I joined the list just recently.
>
> I understand you are planning to have a calendar of activities that
> would lead to FOSS4G in Bonn as the final event..
> Concerning topics to animate that period, I will re-propose what I
> already wrote for FOSS4G in Como: from the BuioMetria Partecipativa
> (participatory night sky quality monitoring) project we are running
> since 2008 we can invite citizen scientists and developers to
> collaborate in collection and sharing of night sky quality data.
>
> We can provide a few sensors and guidance to use them.
>
> We wouldnt be running this on our own from Italy: we have a
> consolidated network of connections in Germany, and I am sure that at
> least a couple of them would like the idea of supporting the 
> exercise.
>  
> Also, in the Bonn area, back in 2011 I spent a few days with a
> colleague from the INSPIRE data specifications teams, and we 
> developed
> some ideas for to-be activities, which could become part of the
> GeoSummer.
>
> To see more what the project is about, please see
> http://www.buiometriapartecipativa.org [6] (and follow the ENGLISH
> section), or please write and Ill be glad to provide more 
> information.
>
> 3) your reference to a "Geo Summer" brings my memories back to this:
> 
> http://www.pibinko.org/gfoss-it-italian-osgeo-chapter-summer-2008-campaign/
> [7] ;)
>
> Best regards!
>
> Andrea Giacomelli
>
> http://www.pibinko.org [8]
>
> 2015-08-19 15:14 GMT+02:00 <till.adams at fossgis.de [9]>:
>
>> Hi LOC!
>>
>> Today there was the workshop to initialize the "Bonner GeoSummer"
>> (who ever has a better naming, please shout!)
>>
>> We, the LOC, participated with 4 persons (Martin Arimont, Uli
>> Rothstein, Torsten Brassat and me) and we had a small FOSs4G
>> plannings meeting here @terrestris afterwards.
>>
>> Please find the minutes here (and to the other participants, feel
>> free to edit!):
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Meeting_minutes [1]
>>
>> We also agreed to write down our aims to a GeoSummer of Bonn into
>> the WIKI, so first I created a WIKI page to be filled:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Bonner_GeoSummer [2]
>>
>> I come back to you these days and sum up the rough ideas about what
>> the Geosummer should/could be.
>>
>> So far,
>> Till
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>
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Meeting_minutes
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Bonner_GeoSummer
> [3] mailto:FOSS4G2016 at lists.osgeo.org
> [4] http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2016
> [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BvL-i--8Ws
> [6] http://www.buiometriapartecipativa.org
> [7]
> 
> http://www.pibinko.org/gfoss-it-italian-osgeo-chapter-summer-2008-campaign/
> [8] http://www.pibinko.org
> [9] mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de