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

[Edoardo Neerhut]

Thank you to all who put this bid together. It would be wonderful to see
FOSS4G SotM Oceania in Fiji.
I agree with Adam's comments about continuity. I think the success of our
conferences will be greater when we have a proportion of each year who stay
on to support the incoming conference committee.

I was not familiar with the Pasifika term but just Googled it and it makes
a lot of sense, particularly with the diverse team proposed so far.

On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 at 04:00, Edwin Liava'a <etuini.liavaa at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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>>>
>>
>
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