[FOSS4G2016] [Program] Talks are scheduled now: proposed changes

[Volker Mische]

Hi Gert-Jan,

On 05/31/2016 11:50 AM, Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl) wrote:
> First of all: you've done a great job on this!

Thanks.


> A few suggestions:

Always welcome.


> - General: give the talks an unique number. That makes it easier to
> handle & discuss changes. Same goes for the tracks

They have a unique number. Just click on them. They got "1000" added in
Frab (compared to the proposal system), the Academic Track as "1500"
added compared to their numbers.


> - Day 3: the "lightning talks" in the morning are a bit surprising
> between the Mayor of Bonn and the first keynote.

I don't know exactly who made the initial draft. It was sent around by
till quite some time ago. So I guess it needs to be discussed with him.


> I'd expect a talk by a Board member on OSgeo in general here; could be
> on of Jody's talks ("a new vision for osgeo" or "welcome to the foss4g
> community". And wasn't Dirk Frigne supposed to be doing a general
> OSgeo.org talks?

I've asked Till, he told me that Dirk's talk will be a different one,
hence I kept it in the program.


> - Day 3: (I think Johan suggested this already): the first afternoon
> track seems very in-depth technical. I'd rather move switch this entire
> track with the land use track (now staged in the Plenargebäude).

In the plenary chamber there should be the talk that most people want to
hear (due to our space limitations in other rooms). I haven't found any
other session where I really thought it must be in the plenary chamber.

Hence I sticked to my original plan and dared to put my own talk into
the plenary chamber. Therefore this session is there :)


> - Day 3: For the 2nd afternoon session I'd put the "community track"
> (GeoMajas etc.) in the Plenary Hall.

I thought that more people would be interested in PostGIS. It's really
not about the significance of talks, it's about where we think people
will go. Though I didn't always stick to it, e.g. for the open source
introduction talks. But we can also move those somewhere else if we feel
like we need room for talks that attract more people.


> - General: are the 4 key topics (land use, open data, remote sesning and
> disaster mapping) supposed to have their "center of gravity" at one day
> (in order to persuade the member of those communities to join us one
> day, instead of drowning in 3 days of free and open source geospatial...)

No idea.

Cheers,
  Volker


> Volker Mische schreef op 29-05-2016 17:36:
>> Hi Program Committee, LOC,
>>
>> I'm done with scheduling the talks, you can find the primarily program at
>>
>>     http://frab.fossgis-konferenz.de/en/foss4g-2016/public/schedule
>>
>> The only things left is how/if we schedule the workshops there as well.
>> The problem I see is that they are at a different location, right? So
>> we'd end up with a lot of additional rooms without much value.
>>
>> We could also just schedule the talks there if that's better. The
>> important thing is that the video team has a system with the talks. As
>> we don't record the workshops, they don't need to be within the system.
>>
>> I plan to do an update of the talks, some updated their abstracts.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Volker
>>
>> PS: Please note that I'll won't have Internet from Thursay 2016-06-02 to
>> Monday 2016-06-06 and then will be in Bolsena where I'd like to spend
>> time on other stuff. So if things should be changed before that, be
>> quick.
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