[Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?

[Alex Leith]

Hey Cameron and others

I agree regarding a legal body, I think working with an existing
organisation is what needs to happen. I can work with SSSI, and have strong
relationships there and I'm pretty sure we could get something happening,
if we wanted to. I defer to you about whether OSGeo could be the group that
provided the support?

And regarding scale, I did think that aiming at 100-200 would be achievable
without too much organisational pain. If we can get support from somewhere
to have a proper venue, we can handle that kind of number, and the venue
should sort out catering and such.

We could try a university, and I have some connections in with Swinburne
and Melbourne Uni that I could query, probably, but I think that would need
more work organising the details... running at a conference venue costs
more, but it takes less effort!

Anyhow, some thoughts from me.

Regards,

Alex

On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 at 18:37 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Extending to be a greater Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G) and
> Open Street Map event I think is viable.
>
> Re creating a legal body: I'd err on trying avoid setting up a legal body
> - it creates a bunch of paperwork that your volunteers have to manage and
> takes them away from doing useful stuff. Ideally work in partnership with
> another legal body, like SSSI, or maybe one of the sponsor partners, or
> OSGeo.
>
> I'd err on aiming small which will mean you can keep the venue costs down.
> (Ideally team up with a University or similar who provides cheap rooms.)
>
> Cheers, Cameron
>
> On 20/11/17 11:22 am, David Dean wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I definitely want to get involved, particularly if we can incorporate a
> local OpenStreetMap State Of The Map (OSM SOTM) conference/track to go
> alongside/in partnership with F4G-AUNZ. There is some strong interest in
> the AU OSM community in getting something like this off the ground.
>
> If we can incorporate an OSM SOTM track, I would be happy to take point on
> that, as well as any assistance need for the wider F4G-AUNZ conference.
>
> I've CC'd this to the OSM Australia Mailing List, so if anyone is coming
> from there, the email thread is below.
>
> (I've also sent this to the QGIS mailing list, but I'm not subscribed yet,
> so I'm not sure if it will go through)
>
> - David
>
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 at 09:44 Adam Steer <Adam.Steer at anu.edu.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Sign me up to help out as well - I’ve been ruminating over the idea of
>> how to re-inspire the AU-NZ community, after having been to a couple of
>> awesome F4G global conferences now.
>>
>> Osgeo seems to be the natural ‘formal group’ - Cameron knows how this
>> might work and will no doubt let me know if I’m barking up the wrong tree.
>> would formalising an ANZ Osgeo chapter be a good path? or fraught with
>> hazard?
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>>
>> > On 20 Nov 2017, at 9:05 am, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hey folks
>> >
>> > As John said, I'm to get involved and help get something going for next
>> > year, potentially.
>> >
>> > I think that the QGIS forum showed that there is interest around, and
>> doing
>> > a FOSS4G-ANZ would be a logical progression into an inclusive event for
>> a
>> > wider group of geo-folks.
>> >
>> > I think that we need to be aware of the big event in spatial, Locate,
>> which
>> > is on around April each year, and as such, an event would be best held
>> in
>> > the last half of the year. And what is unclear to me is what formal
>> bodies
>> > we could organise an event under, i.e., who can front up cash for a
>> venue
>> > and take the risk of an event that loses money (this should be
>> unlikely, but
>> > it's a risk). There is, of course, a lot of discussion around scale, and
>> > format, but we can work all of that out in time.
>> >
>> > Anyhow, I'm very keen to help out. I've run some smaller conferences
>> through
>> > the SSSI in Tassie that have had 100+ attendees, and have recently
>> moved out
>> > of my SSSI volunteering roles and as such I'm ready for the next thing!
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> >
>> > Alex
>> >
>> >
>> >
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