[FOSS4G2016] Status

Fri May 13 06:51:46 PDT 2016

A final programme is important ;-) (BTW - it's what former chairs told 
me, people will register, when the final programme is out)

So June 1st would be very, very good!

Till

Am 2016-05-13 15:47, schrieb Volker Mische:
> Hi Till,
>
> On 05/13/2016 03:39 PM, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
>> Scheduling should be ASAP ;-)
>
> Sure, though I don't understand the importance. You can already see 
> the
> talks on the website. Is it that important which talk is when
> (especially as I'm sure thing will change a lot after July 1st 
> anyway,
> when we contact the speakers that haven't registered yet). I would
> rather think having key note speakers fixed is more important.
>
>
>> Definitely we need a final date when we'll have it. Make a 
>> suggestion ;-)
>
> Then I'll try to do it before June 1st, but if that doesn't work out
> it's more like June 15th or so.
>
> Cheers,
>   Volker
>
>
>> Am 2016-05-13 15:28, schrieb Volker Mische:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> On 05/13/2016 03:24 PM, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Just talked to Volker, he will send the final programme of the 
>>>> talks and
>>>> the AT talks by next week. We then have to bring it on the 
>>>> website.
>>>
>>> No :) I will import all general track talks into the System this 
>>> weekend
>>> (that's the plan at least). Next is then Workshops (should be easy) 
>>> and
>>> I haven't really thought about the Academic track yet, as they are 
>>> in a
>>> completely different system.
>>>
>>> They then need to be scheduled, I don't know how long that takes.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>   Volker
>>>
>>>
>>>> Am 2016-05-13 15:19, schrieb Steven Feldman:
>>>>> Those look like good registration numbers to me for this stage.
>>>>>
>>>>> You will get a boost when you publish the full timetabled 
>>>>> programme
>>>>>
>>>>> Keep up the hard work, you deserve our thanks (I’m not sure many
>>>>> people appreciate the enormous effort that goes into running a 
>>>>> FOSS4G)
>>>>>
>>>>> #mtfbwy
>>>>> ______
>>>>> Steven
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 13 May 2016, at 12:08, till.adams at foss4g2016.org wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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