[FOSS4G2016] keynoter for DisMan RE: LOC FOSS4G 2016 - please wake up again!

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Hi Gj,

sounds really interesting ;-) - thanks! In my eyes, we do not have the 
time to wait any longer, so in my eyes (and if no one cries stop) we 
could go ahead. Do you contact them or should I?

Till


Am 2016-04-22 14:22, schrieb Gert-Jan van der Weijden:
> Hi all,
>
> Jumping into this topic without exactly knowing what's & who has
> already been contacted:
> The (Swiss based) United Nations Office for the Coordination of
> Humanitarian affairs (UN-Ocha) [1] sounds like an interesting
> keynoter.
> They use a lot of open source tooling, such as the "kobotoolbox" [2]
> and a and do open data & crowdsourced data as well.
>
> [1] 
> http://www.unocha.org/what-we-do/coordination-tools/undac/overview
> [2] https://www.humanitarianresponse.info/en/applications/kobotoolbox
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> GJ
>
>
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> till.adams at fossgis.de
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> Onderwerp: [FOSS4G2016] LOC FOSS4G 2016 - please wake up again!
>
> Dear LOC,
>
> this is just a reminder, that we aren't done with the preparation of
> our conference! I am sort of unhappy, that only three (including me)
> people joined IRC yesterday. There are several important points to do
> and to decide. On top of that, we aren't done with the keynoters yet
> although this is a very very important point and we really really 
> fast
> acceptance or rejection of the people requested.
>
> Some of the most important and VERY urgent points:
>
> @Codrina:
> I know that you asked somebody for keynoting on "Open Data", who
> obviously hesitates. Please give him/her a short-term deadline,
> otherwise we'd have to ask somebody else *A*S*A*P*.
>
> @Marc:
> What about a keynoter for Disaster Management *A*S*A*P*?
>
> @Marc/Arnulf:
> What is the state on "Cleaning up the webpage?
>
> @Marc:
> Status of Media Partners? What did we do to get more of them? Makes
> sense to have them *NOW* not in two month.
>
> @PR&M:
> No reaction yet on my request to really spread the opening of
> registration press release, but no other actions at all.
>
> @Arnulf:
> Need a short description of Wordbank-keynoter with picture ASAP (see
> also http://foss4g2016.org/redmine/issues/294)
>
> @All
> We need a decision on how to proceed with the travel grants. I
> personally "+1" the proposal Christoph made here:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:FOSS4G_2016_Travel_Grants
> If no more votes come in until this evening, we adopt that.
>
> @All
> We have only 3 of 6 keynoters fixed yet. Assuming Codrina and Marc
> will bring in one, there is still one remaining slot. We *could* ask
> OSgeo to present their "new strategy", I personnally would prefer
> asking Andrea for talking about FOSS and Geospatial and OSGeo and
> Location Tech ....
> opinions? Other ideas?
>
> You see, a lot of important things, please wake up ;-)
>
> Till
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