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

Sun Sep 15 13:56:28 PDT 2019

Thanks, Edoardo

We are also in support of Adams's comment. We look forward to work with
experienced committee members - should we be successful

Many thanks
vasiti

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 4:53 AM Edoardo Neerhut <ed at mapillary.com> wrote:

> 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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