[Aust-NZ] Locate, and OSGeo Oceania

[Greg Lauer]

I am attending. In the first instance we should probably reach out to Locate and SSSI re how we can work with them. Not sure the politics of promoting another conference within a conference but we can only ask.

> On 18 Jan 2019, at 09:23, adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Alex - thanks for the correction! and the input- you're a lot closer to that part of the community than I am.
> 
> And at this point, yes, I feel we'd be asking a pretty big favour from SSSI/the Locate team to drop in and wave the OSGeo flag - so we need to be clear about what (if anything) we want to ask for; and who has energy to drive it.
> 
> I think it's a good idea to do *something*, and we should be totally audacious and ask for a corner someplace - if someone is willing to hang out at it for a bit; or a talk/lightning talk/??. But then, I'm unlikely to attend (except maybe the market day - perhaps I can be 'OSGeo santa' with a big bag of stickers and stuff, scattering them as I wander around :D )
> 
> Any other thoughts?
> 
> Cheers
> 
>> On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 14:13, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Adam
>> 
>> It's in Melbourne the 8-10th of April.
>> 
>> I'm not sure what we can do there in order to promote the community and our event. We could ask SSSI if we can put a banner up at their stand, maybe? Would we want a 2019 event banner, though, mentioning Wellington?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 13:29 adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi folks
>>> 
>>> It’s very late in the game to try and organise things - but given recent momentum worth a shot:
>>> 
>>> What do people thing about aiming to have a presence at Locate19 (April, Adelaide)? Useful/not useful? It’s kind of a big geospatial event
>>> 
>>> And if useful, what should it look like? I have a banner stand, should it be ‘can we have a small table and something to put stickers on’? … or (as Cameron has done in the past) ‘can we have a talk slot about the open source geo ecosystem and OSGeo Oceania'?
>>> 
>>> …or should we just apply our energy to nurturing a new organisation and a conference of our own? 
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> Adam
>>> 
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>> Alex Leith
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