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

[Edwin Liava'a]

Hi All,

Please find latest updates here
https://gist.github.com/FidelChe/193e1d16e9ce28dadd731c471d637de0

cheers,

Ed

On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 at 14:06, Vasiti Soko <vasiti.soko at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Adam and we as committee agree in principle with you
>
> In summary with all the questions raised yesterday - please find our
> feedback below
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> In reference to your queries, we believe that the adage 'if it ain't
> broke, dont fix it' is quite apt. Therefore we would like to continue with
> the original template of having the existing committee members working in
> collaboration with new members in making the event a successful one. In
> short - Locals lead with lots and lots of helpers
>
> We have also agreed on the brand name to be used i.e. FOSS4G SotM Oceania
> - Pasifika to further illustrate the geographical importance of all the
> small island states with our bigger neighbors Australia and New Zealand,
> and of course the wider SotM community for more international
> inclusiveness. In short, we conquer to use " FOSS4G SotM Oceania -
> Pasifika"
>
> Our colleague Edwin will be making the changes to our LOI online to
> reflect the above
>
> On behalf of the committee
> vasiti
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 12:23 PM adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Vasiti,
>>
>> Thanks for your very open consideration of the questions raised here,
>> it’s really confidence inspiring to see.
>>
>> A quick comment following up from Andrew’s question and based on the
>> google doc: SotM is the ‘brand’ for conferences of the OpenStreetMap
>> community
>>
>> …and an unsolicited opinion which I hope doesn’t conflict with OSGeo
>> Oceania board directives/visions/??: the SotM (State of the Map)
>> component is really important and in my mind should be always part of the
>> branding / event plan for OSGeo Oceania supported events. We want both
>> OSGeo and OpenStreetMap represented.
>>
>> Maybe one day we can come up with less verbose branding for our regional
>> conferences which is inclusive of OSGeo *and* OSM.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 at 13:48, Vasiti Soko <vasiti.soko at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok everybody
>>>
>>> I have copied this question in the google doc
>>>
>>> pls answer there then we can summarise all into 1 statement
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 3:45 PM Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> > FOSS4G Pasifika 2020
>>>>
>>>> For clarification, is the intent to host a joint FOSS4G + SotM
>>>> conference or just FOSS4G? The letter of intent sometimes drops the SotM
>>>> component other times includes it so just looking to clarify this please.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Adam Steer
>> http://spatialised.net
>> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam_Steer
>> http://au.linkedin.com/in/adamsteer
>> http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0046-7236
>> +61 427 091 712 ::  @adamdsteer
>>
>> Suits are bad for business: http://www.spatialised.net/business-penguins/
>>
>

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