[FOSS4G2016] FOSS4G2016 status update

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Hey Till,

Thank you! You guys are doing a great job. Can't wait to be in Bonn with 
our geospatial family.

Best,
Vasile

On 3/9/16 5:48 PM, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
> Hi Vasile, @board
>
> of course I can, and because we are open, there are no sensitive issues ;-)
>
> -Call for Submissions is still open until 21. of March
> -if people from the board from Universities could hint especially on the
> Scientific Track, that'll be great!
> -Workshop team has setup and scheduled all their activities last
> weekend, so we are quiet optimistic to have a final workshop schedule at
> the beginning of April
> -this is important, because registration will open at 15th of April
> -I am in close contact with Andrea Ross from LocationTech about
> sponsorship and their help to promote our event
> -we plan some activities to attract people to use our early bird offer
> (and with that safe up our financial plannings)
> -prices for EB will be slightly below 2014 (around 590€) and regular
> slightly above Portland prices (750€)
> -we are quite happy, that we already have sponsorship money of around
> 80k all together (first plannings were based on 20k)
> -OSGeo booth is at best place and already marked (it's 27 in the plan
> here):
>
> http://2016.foss4g.org/files/foss4g/media/videos/FOSS4G-Exhibition-Plan_v3.jpg
>
> -we are happy to have already a keynoter from European Commission,
> perhaps from ESA (and sponsorship from them), more requested
> -we requested you, the board (via Venka) for another financial backup
> for our planned travel grant program (10k € from OSGeo), a fast decision
> here would be great, as we already have some interested people esp. from
> Africa
> -same with student award
> -we'll have a studentship program with a 50/50 deal: 50% of the time
> work for us (mostly help for video team) and 50% free access to the
> sessions
> -happy to announce our key topics Earth Observation, Land Information,
> OpenData and Disaster Management which should attract neighboured
> communities
> -regular weekly meetings on IRC and monthly meetings of LOC work well,
> minutes see here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Meeting_minutes
> -PR&M is starting to produce really valuable things - and we'll have
> monthly, later weekly press releases to get FOSS4G more and more in focus
> -weather will be great in Bonn ;-)
>
>
> If there are more question,s just contact me,
>
> Regards, Till
>
>
>
>
>
> Am 2016-03-09 11:20, schrieb Vasile Craciunescu:
>> Dear FOSS4G2016 LOC,
>>
>> Can you please provide OSGeo board with a very short update on
>> conference organization status for our monthly board meeting[1]?
>> Please use board-priv at osgeo.org e-mail address if there are any
>> sensitive issues to report.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Vasile
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-3-10
>>
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>
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