[Aust-NZ] OSM Conference in 2011 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Ben.Searle at osdm.gov.au]

Bruce,

We will be having a specific Defence stream at spatial at gov this year and perhaps we could have a stream on the use of open source within government in 2011.

Things to be included could be what is available in OS applications - who has successfully adopted OS, what are the issues, legalities etc.

I am happy to look at working with the OS community to develop a program and if we feel it would be of relevance to government then we can offer to provide the conference platform for this.  This would take away the OS community need to work on the infrastructure component of a conference, such as venue, PCO issues, costs, budgets delegate fees and managing all this.  OS could concentrate on getting a good theme populated with good presenters.

My only caveat would be it would need to be relevant to senior government people, less to the tech heads....

I am happy to explore this further.

Regards

Ben Searle
General Manager,
Australian Government Office of Spatial Data Management

Phone: 02 6249 9298
Mobile: 0439-995-785
Fax: 02 6249 9942
Email: ben.searle at ga.gov.au
Web Site URL: http://www.osdm.gov.au/
Postal address: GPO Box 378, Canberra ACT 2601



-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Bannerman [mailto:B.Bannerman at bom.gov.au]
Sent: Thursday, 22 April 2010 12:48
To: Searle Ben
Cc: aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [Aust-NZ] OSM Conference in 2011 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]



That sounds like a good idea Ben.

What did you have in mind?



John,

This could also be a good venue for OSM if Ben was interested.

It would be good to expose many decision makers to the power of the OSM approach to Community maintained spatial data.

The approach has potential for the future maintenance of Government data (with Government organisations, private industry and public sharing the maintenance burden).





Bruce





> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
> Ben.Searle at osdm.gov.au
> Sent: Wednesday, 21 April 2010 9:33 AM
> To: deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com; cameron.shorter at gmail.com
> Cc: aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [Aust-NZ] OSM Conference in 2011 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
>
> Hi,
>
> Given that you are looking at a 2011 conference would there be any
> interest in holding an open source event together with spatial at gov
> 2011.  This will be in Canberra towards the end of 2011 - possibly
> November.
>
> Regards
>
> Ben Searle
> General Manager,
> Australian Government Office of Spatial Data Management
>
> Phone: 02 6249 9298
> Mobile: 0439-995-785
> Fax: 02 6249 9942
> Email: ben.searle at ga.gov.au
> Web Site URL: http://www.osdm.gov.au/
> Postal address: GPO Box 378, Canberra ACT 2601
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of John Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, 21 April 2010 9:16
> To: Cameron Shorter
> Cc: aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] OSM Conference in 2011
>
>
> On 21 April 2010 07:43, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Teaming with Linux.conf.au is a good idea. It will certainly make
> > organisation easier, and should make it easier to attract delegates.
>
> That's what we're hoping for, however they don't put out applications
> for mini-confs until next month, even if that falls through we would
> still like to hold something next year...
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