[FOSS4G2016] FOSS4G organizing issues
Till Adams
till.adams at fossgis.de
Thu Mar 26 00:29:36 PDT 2015
Dear Karine,
that's fine! First of all just get member of this list and then keep in
contact.
Thanks again, Till
Am 25.03.2015 18:43, schrieb Karine Jean:
> Hi Till and everyone,
>
> I'll be in Germany during the summer and maybe more if I found a job
> opportunity. I can help with anything for the FOSS4G 2016.
> I have an interesting background in event organization with
> EnvisionGEOMATICS[1] here in Quebec.
>
> So, I definitely raise my hand to help you if necessary.
> Let me know how I can be useful.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Karine
>
> [1] http://2014.visiongeomatique.com/en/
>
>
> 2015-03-25 9:00 GMT-04:00 Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de
> <mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de>>:
>
> Hi,
>
> did it:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Chairs
>
> Regards, Till
>
>
>
>
> Am 24.03.2015 14:51, schrieb Arnulf Christl:
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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
> <http://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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