[FOSS4G2016] Status

[till.adams at foss4g2016.org]

Dear LOC!

Sorry for not attending IRC yesterday again. Looks like we have huge 
problems with the fossgis-mailserver, which is either down or very very 
slow in the past two days.
This is also the reason why I send from this mailadress. Perhaps you 
should use this mailadress for contacting me the next days.

As said, I couldn't attend IRC yesterday due to short termed reasons 
(children...). This email is in order to give you an overvierw about the 
happenings in the past days:

We have about 370 full registrations, 56 of them also registered for 
Codesprint before, 44 for the Code sprint after the conference. We have 
already 35 registrations for B2B meeting, 40 wanting to chair a session, 
245 wanting our newsletter.

Also we have nearly 50 applicatons for the student ship programme. 
Charlotte will contact them, we decided to proceed as follows: We'll 
have 2 students per room and 3 for the plenary chamber, 4 at the 
registration/info point, 2 in our orga-office and one in the backhand - 
so we need 44 (22x2) student helpers. Charlotte will send out an email 
to them, asking, who wants to help on other vacancies, e.g. Gala Event, 
Code Sprint, setup of Video-system and so on. If we won't find more 
students helping us on these side events, we are going to hire people, 
which in the end will be less expensive than having more students!

We still have only 3.5 fixed keynoters. I am in discussion with Dirk 
about the OSGeo talk. What about the others?

We have 9 slots for Topic Talks, we started to collect the fixed TT's by 
this week. We have fixed:

- OSGeo live (Angelos)
- Disaster mapping (BICC and University of Bonn)
- Work with Open SOurce and Copernicus (GRASS and DLR)
- OSGeo and INSPIRe (Dirk Frigne and Eurpop. Commission)
- Land Information (Arnulf?)
- NN
- NN
- NN
- NN


My quesitons:
- When do we get the setup of the programme?
- Is the Academic Track decision in time?


So far,

Till