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

Sun Nov 29 16:20:39 PST 2020

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> 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>
> > Date: Saturday, 28 November 2020 at 10:42 pm
> > To: Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com>, Edoardo Neerhut
> > <eneerhut at gmail.com>, ewen.hill at gmail.com <ewen.hill at gmail.com>,
> > forster at ozonline.com.au <forster at ozonline.com.au>
> > Cc: OSgeo - Oceania <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> 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>
> >> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 15:49
> >> Subject: [Oceania-Board-Private] FOSS4G SotM Oceania trees
> >> To: <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
> >>
> >> --
> >> Dr. Adam Steer
> >> 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
> >>
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