[FOSS4G2016] Update:

Wed May 6 09:11:27 PDT 2015

Hi Till,

don't worry. Some more people are reading your mails. Sorry for not 
answering so far.

Maybe you could invite with another mail on fossgis-talk. And maybe we 
should think about an agenda for the Hacking Event.

Astrid

Am 2015-05-06 08:25, schrieb Till Adams:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> (as always, the only one to comment on my emails ;-))
> 
> WINK MIT DEM ZAUNPFAHL (sry he german, means "a broad hint")
> 
>> Hi Till, everyone,
>> 
>> Some comments inline below:
>> 
>> On 2015-05-05 6:37 AM, Till Adams wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> just some updates on the stand of plannings on FOSs4G2016:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Due to illness, long weekends and other delays we are still in the
>>> progress of formatting our corportation. I hope to get that 
>>> officially
>>> done by this week, then we have to wait for the finance office...
>> 
>> Note that the next OSGeo Board meeting is on the 21st, might be a good
>> goal/deadline for you.
> 
> That's a nice idea, but as said, it is not in my hands, it is in the
> hand of the finance office - so here is nothing else to do like just
> wait.... ;-)
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> This thursday evening I have a meeting with Olaf, a friend of mine, 
>>> who
>>> shoots movies on a semi-professional base. We want to make a movie I 
>>> can
>>> show in South Korea for our invitation for the world. Also for this I
>>> hope to get two or three dates from WCCB soon, so we can shoot some
>>> scenes inside WCCB.
>>> If there are any ideas regarding the movie, please feel free to
>>> contribute!
>> 
>> great idea!  You could mention how Bonn is so big that the OSGeo
>> President got lost on a bicycle there one night :) ha. kidding.
> 
> Good introduction for the movie ;-)
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Also Volker Mische, the chair of our program comittee wants to come 
>>> to
>>> Bonn, so he can check the rooms we've reserved for the conference.
>> 
>> This is important, and something that I proposed years ago as part of
>> the failed "FOSS4G Advisor' role, on-site visits before the event.  
>> Not
>> just important, in fact it is critical.  I would also like to get to 
>> the
>> WCCB and meet with your team locally.
> 
> Do you plan to go to Como? Maybe that's an opportunity, if you come 
> over
> Bonn. Afterwards I am not here, as I start my holidays directly from
> Como. But potentially there are others from Bonn who can make it with 
> you.
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Last week I had a meeting with Bonn Tourismus GmbH, we talked about
>>> blocking of Hotels (they must do it now and they do for 1000 
>>> overnights)
>>> and also about field trips. They will make a field-trip-program we 
>>> can
>>> directly put on the website.
>> 
>> 
>> As you know it's an interesting time with accommodations, with the
>> 'unofficial' places to stay (AirBnB) becoming so popular; I know here 
>> in
>> Canada, at least 2 tourism boards (for Nova Scotia and for Quebec) are
>> trying to regulate them.  Crazy question of the day: has anyone heard 
>> of
>> an event that has an agreement with something like AirBnB for
>> accommodations?  (a few euros off or something)  Is that even 
>> possible?
>> ha.  Or, maybe you can take my odd question as: please think of ways 
>> to
>> also promote affordable accommodation options for attendees.
> 
> We will offer the full range - there is no other possibility here, as
> Bon nhas a veryh eterogenous landscape of hotels - few big ones and 
> many
> smaller ones.
> 
> The idea is not so bad, but theofficial thing is also not bad, as you
> get the best rates guaranteed from Bonn Tourism and also the ticket for
> public transport.
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Another idea came up on a recent meeting with the city of Bonn, maybe 
>>> on
>>> the weekend before: There are some open hacking movements here in
>>> Germany where people meet and hack anything with free data and free
>>> software (open hack evenings). The idea was, to organize kind of free
>>> hack weekend with themes - similar to the hacking workshops they
>>> performed in Nottingham. Any opinions on that?
>>> 
>>> 
>> It's a great idea (in fact I believe Maria is planning something like
>> this for the local community before FOSS4G-Como).
> 
> Looking forward meeting her there ;-)
> 
> Till
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> -jeff
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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