[Aust-NZ] Locate, and OSGeo Oceania

[Greg Lauer]

100% agree. Anybody on the committee have a contact at Locate so we can kick off discussions. Maybe start with Maurits as he is chair of organising committee?

Greg

> On 18 Jan 2019, at 11:09, adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> great, Greg.
> 
> I was thinking more of promoting the organisation (OSGeo Oceania) - and I have seen a fair bit of conference promotion at other conferences.
> 
> Don’t forget, we have a budget - so it may come to a committee decision about a value proposition and commercial decision (*if* space exists to do *a thing*). Quid pro quo, right? we can support Locate and the industry, they can support the open source community back. The great circle of life and funding.
> 
> In the back of my mind is also this: Like OSGeo (the international org), we need to attract sponsors - for both the conference and the entity. Locate might be a good place to start that search.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> 
>> On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 15:49, Greg Lauer <gregory.lauer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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