[FOSS4G2016] FOSS4G organizing issues

Tue Mar 24 06:51:28 PDT 2015

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Till,
I would prefer to have some of the more "static" information on the
OSGeo Wiki too because it is open, public and well known. I'd hope
that this way we can get more people who are not part of the Bonn
Local Chapter to find us and make the conference more global. Just
think about native Spanish speaking folks for example who might be
interested to help the international community but will surely not
find us right away if we "hide" all of what we do in a private Wiki
and ticketing system.

So I am not saying we shouldn't have that but that additionally we
need to reach out through all channels available.

Ah, bla - as "community manager" I'll probably just go ahead. Its a
Wiki, right? :-)

Cheers,
Arnulf

On 03/24/2015 09:34 AM, Till Adams wrote:
> Dear Arnulf,
> 
> we've just discussed the WIKI and Ticekt sydtem issue. We can setup
> a jiffy box with redmine, which also has a WIKI inside from
> FOSSGIS.
> 
> I prefer Redmine as a ticket system, if there is a similar
> architecuter on OSGeo architecture, I am fine with that. if we have
> the wiki on the one platform and the ticket system on an other, I'd
> prefer to choose that Jiffy, which could be setup by our terrestris
> administrator really fast. So we can direktly link from WIKI int
> tickets and vice versa.
> 
> Regards, Till
> 
> Am 24.03.2015 14:18, schrieb Arnulf Christl: Till, thanks for the
> update.
> 
> I suggest to populate a Wiki with the tasks and names you listed 
> below. Additionally we should also specifically ask people to take 
> responsibility for tasks.
> 
> Do you have a preference which Wiki to use? I'd suggest to
> populate the OSGeo Wiki because it has the biggest outreach. A
> proper ticketing system will help to keep track of what is going on
> but the "soft" information about who does what should be as public
> as we can make it. I can do that if there are no other opinions.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Best regards, Arnulf
> 
> On 03/23/2015 04:51 AM, Till Adams wrote:
>>>> Dear FOSS4G2016'ers,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> last friday I had a meeting with Klaus Greve, reagrding the
>>>> issue with EARSeL and FOSs4G. We agreed, that we won't make
>>>> it bringing both conferences into one event.
>>>> 
>>>> One problem is the timeline, as EARSeL tends to be early and
>>>> wants to start in June and FOSS4G month is traditionally
>>>> september. Second, some EARSeL guys got cold feet regarding
>>>> the different size of EARSeL (350) and FOSs4G (1000). That's
>>>> a pitty, but not to change for the moment.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> In general we thought of creating a kind of "roof" on top of
>>>> both conferences (Bonner Geo-Summer or s.th like that) and
>>>> "connect" the events by having a FOSs4G track @EARSeL and a
>>>> Remote sensing Track @FOSS4G. Having this, we want to talk to
>>>> the city hoping to get some of the discount, they promised us
>>>> in advance. I am absolutely sure, that both communities may
>>>> benefit from each other.
>>>> 
>>>> On the other hand, this makes our plannings easier, as we can
>>>> focus on ourselves.
>>>> 
>>>> To give an overview about what is happening by this week:
>>>> 
>>>> 1. First of all, I want to fix the conference date this
>>>> week.- I have to time frames offered by WCCB. One is end of
>>>> August as mentioned in the roposal, a second potential time
>>>> could be 5th-9th of september. I will talk to WCCB this week
>>>> and will see, I guess, we get easier discount when taking the
>>>> August time-span.
>>>> 
>>>> 2. I have a meeting with our PCO tomorrow where we want to
>>>> fix our collaboration and make a rough planning of what
>>>> should happen when.
>>>> 
>>>> 3. We definetely need some "heads" for several working 
>>>> groups/themes.
>>>> 
>>>> For now we already have:
>>>> 
>>>> - Franz-Josef Beer as chair of scientific track - Volker
>>>> Mische as chair of program committee
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Of course we need more than just the chairs here! Feel free
>>>> to raise your arms here or for the below listed themes:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> a) Workshop organization Marco already offered his help and
>>>> also Pirmin said, that he would like to help with the
>>>> OSGeo-live DVD. Having a local here for aquisicion of
>>>> Workshop rooms and contact person to university would be very
>>>> helpful.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> b) financial issues Torsten Brassat, who helped at earlier
>>>> FOSSGIS conferences offered some help here. Also I guess that
>>>> Fred Ramm as our treasurer might contribute a little here, if
>>>> he wants to. More people welcome.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> c) "social-event-organizer" The frame of the social events
>>>> are set, but I think we need one or two heads caring for gala
>>>> event and ice breaker especially. This may laso include some
>>>> offerings of field trips for the saturday.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> d) sponsorship & exhibition Sponsorship is a source where we
>>>> can generate early income, so to start this process early is
>>>> a major part. Also I guess, that most companies are planning
>>>> their financial budget this year, so it is important to let
>>>> them know about the possibilities of sponsoring FOSS4G.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> e) public relations I talked to Textkoch this FOSSGIS and he 
>>>> offered his help together with Monika Resch here (of course
>>>> not for free :-(). Public relations work may play a major
>>>> role to get many people attending our conference. So for this
>>>> issues we need a group of people and also ideas on how to
>>>> structure this. Klaus Greve also said, that we might talk to
>>>> the public realtions office of the university first.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> f) Family weekend An idea brought in by the irish proposal
>>>> was to make a family weekend before the conference. Peter,
>>>> the chair of the Dublin team offered his help here, but he
>>>> definetely needs a helping local hand here.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> g) Code sprint We need an organizers of the code sprint. The
>>>> group cares for room, snacks and acts as contact persons for
>>>> this event.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> h) Techniue There are competent people from WCCB, but we 
>>>> definietely need a group of persons taking care of the
>>>> conference technique ingeneral.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> i) Co-operation with WCCB, caterer, PCO etc.pp. I guess, this
>>>> will be my part as I started this already for the proposal.
>>>> Help welcome ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> This is it for know, did I forget anything (surely: yes!). I
>>>> will take care for getting a WIKI/Ticket system on our 
>>>> FOSSGIS-architecture ASAP, so we can switch more into the
>>>> WIKI.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Regards, Till
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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