[FOSS4G2016] meeting toninght in Bonn: goals for 2016

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Hi Gert-Jan, @All

thanks for your input. Personnally I have no wirries about two dutch 
taking the marketing/PR chair. Really related with that is also the 
webpage. I wil lsee the guys wanting to set up an initial design and 
also CMS end of June on our FOSSGIs hacking weekend.

Also a lot of your ideas are really fine and I love to discuss them in 
Como. I will set up an agenda for Como the week before the event, so we 
can go through very structured and hoefully have a good result 
afterwards. I've also updated the chairs-page and really like to add 
your "goals sum up" somewhere in the WIKI. But perhaps you'd like to go 
for that, as these are your ideas ;-)

A thing not to forget is really the 10th anniversary. I'd love to see 
as much former chairs as possible. Perhaps we must also think of some 
financial help at least for Gavin to enable him to travel to Bonn.

So far,

Till



Am 2015-06-10 19:10, schrieb Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting 
OSGeo.nl:
> Hello "team-2016",
>
> As mentioned earlier, I can't attend tonight's meeting in Bonn.
>
> Just a few last-minute thoughts (also on behalf of Marc Vloemans,
> who's is since last month a fellow Dutch board member)
>
> - Marc and I both offered to handle the marketing aspect. However, a
> German
>
> - A structure who's responsible for which organisation topic, and how
> these topics are linked together is very valuable.
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Chairs is a good start for
> that, just add the linkage between the topics (for instance:
> sponsorship and PR are related)
>
> - The same goes for co-operation with other organisations, such as a
> Professional Congres Organisation, Textkoch, Bonn Tourismus etc.
>
> - On page 7 of the of our bid, our proposals are set. in short:
>
>  - Link FOSS4G with Open data
>
>  - Bring people together
>
>  - 10th anniversary of FOSS4G
>
> Apart from that, a goal is to raise money for the foundation (as
> stated on page 8)
>
> Througout the remainder of the bid, several "pseudo-goals" are set,
> such as 1000 participants, delegates from all over Europe and the 
> rest
> of the world, a diverse program.
>
> I think it would be great if we can elaborate on these formal and
> non-formal goals: how much Eurepean countries must be represented.
> What type of audience do we aim at (50% developers?, 50% people with 
> a
> "traditional geo-background"? 50% not-geospatial-experts-but-users
> from-other-domains?)
>
> But also: do we only want media-exposure in advance, in order to fill
> the 1000 seats. Or do we want the (ICT/geospatial/local) media to
> attend FOSS4G in order to "let the world know about FOSS4G"
>
> After all, clear goals make it easier for the "marketing department"
> to reach these goals ;-)
>
> It's just a thought. I'd like to hear your opinion on this.
>
> Have a good kick-off meeting tonight, and I hope to see you all in
> Como.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gert-Jan
>
> btw: the osgeo.nl domain currently has some problems with the mail.
> Will be solved soon, I expect.