[OSGeo Oceania] Fwd: [Oceania-Board-Private] FOSS4G SotM Oceania trees

Edoardo Neerhut eneerhut at hey.com
Thu Dec 3 14:58:25 PST 2020


Thanks for bringing this up again Adam and Tony.

I'll be leaving Melbourne indefinitely next month, but I'm happy to
rally the community and see how many people we can get to attend.
Obviously these efforts will be easier once we can commit to a specific
date. 

On November 30, 2020, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is a really awesome initiative!
>
> Let me know if/when you have an invoice for the trees and I can pay
> it. 
>
> Kind regards,


> On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 10:37, <forster at ozonline.com.au
> <mailto:forster at ozonline.com.au>> wrote:

> Hi Martin
>
>  Thank you for your words of support
>
>  I have just republished the tree planting event at 
> <https://www.parkconnect.vic.gov.au/Volunteer/public-planned-
> activity/?id=c38ff798-914c-ea11-b698-0003ff6f5db4>
>
>  We have 9 registered so far, still registered from this year's 
>  canceled planting. I may alter the exact date, those registered will 
>
>  get emailed notification of changes.
>
>  Tony Forster
>  tonyf1 on OSM
>  Friends of Lysterfield Park
>
>  > This is, for me, a highlight of our activities in the last years ( 
>  
>  > as anything that gets me away form the computer is).
>  >
>  > Count on me supporting this, manually and chasing people.
>  >
>  > Martin
>  >
>  > From: Oceania <oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:oceania-
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org>>
>  > Date: Saturday, 28 November 2020 at 10:42 pm
>  > To: Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com
> <mailto:alexgleith at gmail.com>>, Edoardo Neerhut   
>  > <eneerhut at gmail.com <mailto:eneerhut at gmail.com>>,
> ewen.hill at gmail.com <mailto:ewen.hill at gmail.com> <ewen.hill at gmail.com
> <mailto:ewen.hill at gmail.com>>,   
>  > forster at ozonline.com.au <mailto:forster at ozonline.com.au>
> <forster at ozonline.com.au <mailto:forster at ozonline.com.au>>
>  > Cc: OSgeo - Oceania <oceania at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:oceania at lists.osgeo.org>>
>  > Subject: Re: [OSGeo Oceania] Fwd: [Oceania-Board-Private] FOSS4G   
>  > SotM Oceania trees
>  > Hey Alex, thanks for the reminder. I've directly added Tony
> Forster,
>  > Ewen Hill and Ed Neerhut to this response.
>  >
>  > What is left to do?
>  >
>  > - OSGeo Oceania needs to pay for 250 seedlings
>  > I will ask Tony in a moment to get an invoice raised for the
> seedlings
>  > - so OSGeo Oceania can pay for them. That's the last direct task
> the
>  > OO board has to do.
>  >
>  > - sometime in June/July/August these seedlings will need planting
>  > Tony has this all in hand via Friends of Lysterfield. Coronavirus
>  > conditions permitting, I hope there is a chance to make a community
>  > event out of it.
>  >
>  > From my point of view:
>  > Here is where I hope Ed and Ewen can pick up the reins and organise
>  > something with Tony. Martin Tomko might also be a good resource to
>  > call upon, with links to the unimelb student/research community, if
>  > there's a neat way to use this project as a longer term study site.
>  >
>  > Another opportunity for involvement of the the OO board here,
> mainly
>  > around organising communications about the project with friends of
>  > Lysterfield
>  >
>  > I hope other people come up with even better and more creative
> ideas
>  > around this project than I can.
>  >
>  > Looking forward to seeing those trees appear in the ground and OSM
> in
>  > 2021, and hopefully get bigger each year. Thanks again to the
>  > community and OO board for supporting this protracted plan.
>  >
>  > Adam
>  >
>  > On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 23:08, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com
> <mailto:alexgleith at gmail.com>> wrote:
>  >>
>  >> Hey Adam
>  >>
>  >> Could we please get an update on the tree planting initiative.
>  >>
>  >> I've lost track of how much money we've committed. I know we
> spent   
>  >> $575 on tree guards a while ago, and that we're planning on   
>  >> ordering 250 seedlings... I'd like to include the outstanding   
>  >> expense as a liability, so there's a record of it.
>  >>
>  >> I'm guessing planting will not be possible until June/July 2021,
> right?
>  >>
>  >> And is it worth handing over the relationship with Tony Forster
> to   
>  >> someone else, considering your distance from Victoria currently?
>  >>
>  >> For the list, here's Tony's proposal document   
>  >>
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BbmRF241Vd4QWZRt6l6FBWwtklzhg-
> ghgbnm2N9YQ6M/edit>
>  >>
>  >> Cheers,
>  >>
>  >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>  >> From: Adam Steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com
> <mailto:adam.d.steer at gmail.com>>
>  >> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 15:49
>  >> Subject: [Oceania-Board-Private] FOSS4G SotM Oceania trees
>  >> To: <oceania-board at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:oceania-
> board at lists.osgeo.org>>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> hey Board
>  >>
>  >> The FOSS4G SotM 2019 tree planting project will be delayed till   
>  >> next year. Tony Forster has looked at a lot of options, however
> the 
>  >>  project area is in stage 4 lockdown until too late to establish 
>  >> the  seedlings properly this year, and in comms with the nursery 
>  >> has  advised that it is better to delay a year and make sure the 
>  >> trees  we plant survive!
>  >>
>  >> The nursery will ask us to pay in advance for new seedlings for   
>  >> next year (don't worry, we still only pay for the amount we
> need),   
>  >> which is great - we've been trying to pay in advance for a while 
>  
>  >> now! I've asked for an invoice.
>  >>
>  >> ...and I'll keep comms open with Tony about progress.
>  >>
>  >> Regards
>  >>
>  >> Adam
>  >>
>  >> --
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>  >>
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