[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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