[Ottawa_users] OSGeo-Ottawa Involvement at Vision Geomatique 2014 Conference
Regie Alam
regie.alam at gmail.com
Thu Jan 23 14:16:27 PST 2014
Hi Richard,
Thanks for spearheading this. I will be wiling to participate in any
collaborations.
Looks like I won't be able to make it to the meeting tonight but will
be looking forward to the meeting minutes.
Thanks,
Regie
On Thursday, January 23, 2014, richard burcher <drownedfrog at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I touched base last night with Daniel Morissette to get an update on the
> [1]
> Vision Geomatique 2014 spatial event that is happening in Gatineau on Nov
> 11-13 2014. It is being put on by both the OSGeo-Quebec chapter + Vision
> Geomatique. There was some talk with Daniel (Fabien/Regie/Christine/myself)
> at the Ottawa LocationTech meetup last fall that the Ottawa OSGeo chapter
> was quite interested in being involved.
>
> This is going to be a great conference with its own open source/data track.
> I'd like to see our chapter involved and am excited to get more involved
> with the Quebec chapter.
>
> Putting the email trail here for others to see what's happening. We'd love
> your feedback/thoughts!
>
> I will be bringing it up at the monthly meeting tonight.
>
> [1] http://2014.visiongeomatique.com/
> ======
>
> Excellent news! Thanks a lot for leading the charge.
>
> Daniel
>
> On 14-01-22 8:32 PM, richard burcher wrote:
> > Thanks for the update. I'm no longer the co-chair; that has fallen to
> > Fabien and Javed. I want to see OSGeo Ottawa involved with this and will
> > be bringing this up at our monthly meeting tomorrow evening. I feel
> > pretty confident the rest of the Ottawa folks will be pretty pumped
> > about this.
> >
> > Really like the idea of a single venue with track for open source/data.
> > I'm pretty excited to see both Ottawa and Quebec OSGeo orgs come
> together!
> >
> > My upcoming actions will be to start a thread on Ottawa mailing list and
> > copy this email over so more folks can see what's coming. I'll bring it
> > up for discussion at tomorrow's meeting.
> >
> > Have a great night!
> >
> > On Jan 22, 2014 8:23 PM, "Daniel Morissette" <dmorissette at mapgears.com<javascript:;>
> > <mailto:dmorissette at mapgears.com <javascript:;>>> wrote:
> >
> > Okay, last time that I reply to myself, promised!
> >
> > Tues-Wed of next week is Jan 28-29 of course (not 27-28)
> >
> >
> > On 14-01-22 8:19 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> >
> > Oh, and FYI Karine will be in Gatineau next week
> > (Tuesday-Wednesday Jan
> > 27-28 if I remember correctly), in case you want to try to meet
> > face to
> > face.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> > On 14-01-22 8:10 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> >
> > Oh, a few more details:
> >
> > - I am a member of the Vision Geomatique organizing
> > committee since
> > 2008, and am in charge of the open source/data part of the
> > program since
> > the 2010 edition, so I'll be the liaison between the main
> > committee and
> > the open source team if you join the game
> >
> > - This is the 3rd time that OSGeo-Quebec works with the
> Vision
> > Geomatique committee this way, so don't worry too much, it
> > won't be too
> > stressful, we're kind of used to the process of working
> > together.
> >
> > - In 2010 we had a separate 2 days event called "Rendez-vous
> > OSGeo-Qc"
> > that was held *before* Vision Geomatique, and Andrew was
> > present with
> > his team to record the talks. In 2012, we switched to a
> > single Vision
> > Geomatique event which included a dedicated room/track in
> > the program of
> > the main event for the Open Source / Open Data stuff, this
> > required less
> > management and planning and we had a packed room for the
> > full two days.
> >
> > - For 2014 we are planning to repeat the same approach as
> > 2012, with a
> > room dedicated to open source software/data for the full
> > duration of the
> > event... and it will be packed again!!!
> >
> > - Since we'll be in the Gatineau-Ottawa region, we're
> > planning for the
> > event to be bilingual across the board, from keynotes to
> > tech talks.
> > We'll try to have conferences in both French and English in
> > parallel in
> > the program at any given time, so people who are not
> > bilingual will
> > hopefully not feel any down times.
> >
> > That's it for now I think...
> >
> >
> > On 14-01-22 7:57 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> >
> > Hi Andrew, Richard, CC; Karine,
> >
> > First the introductions:
> > - Andrew Ross, director of LocationTech (what is
> > your exact title?)
> > - Richard Burcher, chair of OSGeo-Ottawa (are you
> > still the chair? I
> > forgot)
> > - Karine Jean, chair of the Vision Geomatique org
> > committee
> >
> > I am sorry for not getting back to you sooner about the
> > Vision
> > Geomatique 2014 event that will be held in Gatineau on
> > Nov 11-13 2014. I
> > am in the middle of an office move, combined with
> > wrapping fiscal year
> > 2013 for Mapgears and trying to keep up with normal work
> > stuff and real
> > life in parallel, so I'm a bit swamped.
> >
> > Anyway, this is a quick note to let you know that
> > OSGeo-Quebec has
> > confirmed its participation to the Vision Geomatique
> > 2014 organizing
> > committee back in November, and we still want
> > OSGeo-Ottawa and
> > LocationTech to join us for the planning of the Open
> > Source / Open Data
> > aspects of the event.
> >
> > The plan that has been discussed so far with the
> > committee is a
> > dedicated room/track in the program for us to manage for
> > the two main
> > days of the event (Nov. 12-13). And it's up to us to
> > decide if we want
> > to organize something on the previous day, Nov 11,
> > either training
> > workshops, a hackfest, or other type of event related to
> > open source
> > software and open data.
> >
> > What do we need to make your involvement official?
> > Please consider this
> > email a formal invitation to join the party and discuss
> > this invite with
> > "your people". Once you confirm that you're in then we
> > can make
> > announcements, add your logo to the website, and start
> > the planning more
> > actively.
> >
> > My goal would be to share the planning of the open
> > source stuff with you
> > guys and all your ideas will be welcome.
> >
> > Cheers and looking forward to hear back from you
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Morissette
> > http://www.mapgears.com/
> > Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000
>
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