[Ireland] OSGeo Ireland - Face2Face meetup

[Mel McIntyre]

Sounds good to me - April and May are ok to me. You know it is 
impossible to predict business priorities but I think suggest a few 
dates and times, our offices are available if that suits.
Mel



On 09/03/2016 12:22, Peter Mooney wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm emailing to follow on from our last OSGeo Ireland meetup online 
> hosted by OpenApp.ie. I've included a few people in CC as I'm not sure 
> if everyone is on the list.
>
> At the last meeting we agreed that it is time for us to have a 
> Face2Face meet up soon.
>
> Rather than create a Doodle Poll with lots of dates and times which 
> don't work - perhaps we could have a short discussion on the mailing 
> list here about where and when the best time would be? After this we 
> could create a Doodle Poll.
>
> The guys at OpenApp said that they would be happy to host in their 
> offices in central Dublin. While this won't suit everyone logistically 
> their offices are very accessible via public transportation.
>
> Myself and Daniel McInerney have spoken about this meetup a few times.
>
> We think that it should be informal, a couple of hours long, maybe 
> include 5 minute flash presentations from participants so that 
> everyone can see what people are interested in/currently 
> doing/currently wanting to do in the OSGeo world.
>
> The initial goal we should be working towards is a one day OSGeo 
> Ireland event (presentations, networking, invited speaker (maybe)) 
> THIS YEAR. At the meetup we could also discuss the possibility of 
> bringing something bigger such as FOSS4G 2017 Europe to Ireland.  
> FOSS4G 2017 Global is not in Europe so there is an opportunity to 
> reproduce FOSS4G 2015 Como here. Myself and Daniel would be willing to 
> be the leaders of this.
>
> So let's have some opinions and views about a meeting in April or May 
> 2016. Then we can create a poll of the popular options and go from there.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Peter