[OSGeo Oceania] Fiji's - Letter of Intent - FOSS4G SotM Pasifika 2020

[Edwin Liava'a]

Hi Adam,

I will vote "Yes" to:

1.  Local leads with helpers from all over the place.

2. FOSS4G Pasifika 2020

cheers,

Ed

On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 at 12:05, adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Vasiti, all
>
> Thanks for this proposal, it is fantastic to see broad support and energy
> in the region for open geospatial systems!
>
> While I’m not in a decision making position on this, I have two questions
> broadly:
>
> 1. how will this proposal address continuity / handover of experiences
> between current conference committees and future ones? It’s worked well so
> far to have a mix of old/new people on the committee, and reduces the risk
> of an event being organised ‘in a bubble'. On a related tangent, it would
> be fantastic to expose more ‘big islanders’ to how small islands in our
> region do things in a logistics/political sense. I don’t see clearly how to
> achieve that without growing the LoC excessively - perhaps local leads with
> helpers from all over the place?
>
> 2. branding: pasifika/oceania? both terms are used to describe the event.
> I can see where you’re coming from with joining efforts between an
> existing Pacific Islands OSGeo chapter and the newly minted Oceania chapter
> - to me it doesn’t matter which way the brand goes, just pick one :D
>
> I wish this proposal all the best, and hope to see it come to life!
>
> Regards,
>
> Adam
>
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 16:02, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is a very exciting proposal, thank you Vasiti and others.
>>
>> On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 15:47, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Wonderful, thanks Vasiti & team! Looking forward to discussing further.
>>> We'll be in touch after the closing date (16th).
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> John
>>>
>>> On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 07:37, Vasiti Soko <vasiti.soko at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bula,
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On behalf of the committee members copied in this email, I hereby
>>>>> submit Fiji's Letter of Intent to host FOSS4G SotM Pasifika in the year
>>>>> 2020.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Our LOI can be found here:
>>>>> https://gist.github.com/FidelChe/193e1d16e9ce28dadd731c471d637de0
>>>>>
>>>>> A copy of LOI is also attached.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please feel free to contact us should you require additional
>>>>> information.
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>> vasiti
>>>>>
>>>>>
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