[FOSS4G2016] Update 01.06.2015

Mon Jun 1 05:45:26 PDT 2015

Hello list, hallo Liste,

The fact that I was only listening to the "closed mailing list" and a holiday in France made me a little absent until now, but over the last days I catched up with the current state-of-the-organization.
My first two, three, four, five cents bundled in one mail:

0. Preferably, count me in for PR & marketing related stuff. 

5. Sorry, I can't attend next week in Bonn. Although the distance/travel time Amsterdam-Bonn is not the problem, it just doesn't fit into my agenda. 
Hope to see you all in Como in july.

6. Hotel accommodation: 
- In a local Dutch paper I read an article about http://www.basecamp-bonn.de/, which is an covered campsite, with 15 caravans, an VW transporter and 2 train sleeper wagons as accomodation. 
- A total of 120 beds.
- Prices vary from 27 (single bed in a shared train compartment), 47 (private compartment in a train) to 74 euros (private double room in a caravan).
- It's situated next to the Bonnox hotel, which is already on the list Till submitted a week ago
- Perhaps even worth to rent the complete accommodation?
- (btw, I don't have anything to do with Basecamp-Bonn, it's just that'it's look so very cool, waht makes me excited about it!)

8. Logo: 
- I like the idea of the river Rhine in the logo. Since no less than 9 countries are part of the Rhine basin, it's a good symbol for "connection"!
- The Siebengebirge-background is perhaps too much of an German incrowd addition; even as a frequent Bundesautobahn nrs. 3 und 61 -user I was until yesterday not aware of a Bonn-Siebengebirge link.
- Regarding colour: why not use the black-red-yellow of the German flag? It's well known. After all, you are holders of the World cup!)
- Since Bonn promotes itself as Germany's United Nations City, perhaps it would be nice to include a sort of reference to the UN logo. 

Greetings from the Lowlands, 

Gert-Jan
Chair of OSGeo.nl, the local Dutch chapter

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Van: foss4g2016-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:foss4g2016-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Namens till.adams at fossgis.de
Verzonden: maandag 1 juni 2015 13:35
Aan: foss4g2016 at lists.osgeo.org
Onderwerp: [FOSS4G2016] Update 01.06.2015

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
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