[FOSS4G2016] Update 01.06.2015

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Hi list,

just to keep you up to date, I'll send some informations of what 
happened the past days.


1. Tomorrow we will have a visit inside IHK Bonn. They offer us a least 
three rooms for workshops. Of course we will need ore, but if one 
starts, I think it's easier to attract others to do the same ;-)


2. Wednesday we will have a visit inside the Botanical Garden and talk 
with the garden's administration on how we can make our Ice Breaker 
there and what must be done in advance.


3. Hinrich and me just decided to start the official "call for 
Sponsoring" by September. So we will not come in competition with the 
2015 conference but also start early enough to contact global players 
this year.
We also talked about defining "special" packages like "Exclusive Ice 
Breaker Sponsor" or "Exclusive Code Sprint Sponsor" that might attract 
sponsors to deal with us early/(ier). We agreed that local sponsorship 
aquisition might start earlier.


4. That means that our website should be up and running not later than 
beginning of september. I will talk to the "Küstenschmiede"-guys end of 
this month on the FOSSGIS hacking weekend. BTW @Jeff, I still have no 
reaction on my OSGEO ticket regarding the URL: 
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1492


5. Overall this gives us a time framework, we should work on on our 
first FOSS4G meeting in Bonn next wednesday (10th of June in LUXX ... 
broad hint ;-))


6. I asked at Bonn Tourismus GmbH for some more accommodations, 
especially in the low-cost sector, as most of the rooms they pre-offered 
via this list started at about 75 Euros. Torsten pointed me to that 
(thanks for that).




So far, regards, Till