[Qgis-psc] Possible venue for March 2016 QGIS Hackfest

Sun Sep 13 23:16:45 PDT 2015

Hi Luigi

> On 11 Sep 2015, at 15:38, Luigi Pirelli <luipir at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tim (Victor, Carlos and Luis)
> 
> My "old" request was to have an Hackfest in Spain... we (Victor, carlos Lopez and me) proposed this during the last Spanish FOSS4G event in Girona that produced two offers in the same day.
> 
> 1) The first from the Girona usiversity to host hackmeeting during (or before or after) next X SIGTE (that is the Spanish FOSS4G event) next (usually) march... Home page of the event of the last meeting is: http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/ <http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/>
> I leave Victor, carlos in CC and I add Luis Vicents that is one of the organiser of the SIGTE
> 
> 2) The second from Gan Canaria University that produces the current Hackmeeting, thanks the fact that the spanish  organiser invsted their time during Nodebo hackmeeting.
> 
> From my point of view, it's a good to be present during SIGTE for the next hack meeting for the following reasons:
> 
> points in favour:
> 1) Spain have some contributors and the "market" it's opening now to QGIS.
> 2) SIGTE is an important meeting point for all is FOSS4G in spain or peaple that peack in spanish.
> 3) Next SIGTE is the X anniversary :)
> 4) cheaper to reach thanks to Girona or Barcelona airport
> 5) Girona University support
> 6) We can have a new User Meeting after Nodebo (1 year later)
> 
> Points against:
> 1) An hackmeeting after only 5 month?

I don’t think it matters too much if it is 5 months - we don’t always manage to space the meetings out exactly 6 months apart...

> 2) Again in Spain? ok... but it's  and User Meeting too.

For me not a problem, not sure how others feel.

> 
> Just to be clear... I'm not related with any university... I'm freelancer and I leave 1000km far from Girona.

Ok understood...

> Would be fine organise this here where I live, but probably I can't reach the same organization level that can offer Girona with a well organisation team, at least for also a User Meeting. For a simple Hackmeeting I can manage, but I prefer to support the SIGTE event, because it's a central meeting for people interested in FOSS4G in Spain.

Yeah so it would be important to have a ‘champion’ to help organise things. I think we can probably expect ±100 to ±200 people so it would take some organising and the time to the event is not to long. I think if we cannot find a champion (like Lene was for Nødebo) we should rather thing about leaving out the user conference part (which would be a pity).

> 
> about your requests... I try to pass the question to Lluis that can answer better to:
> * ideal dates
> * any costs we may need to cover
> * venue information
> * transport options
> * accommodation options
> 
> Cheers, Luigi Pirelli

Thanks so much for your quick answer Luigi (and sorry for my slow one!). Luis could you give some indication as to whether hosting a QGIS user conference is something you would be interested and willing to do? If not I think we will start advertising for other potential venues.

My best regards

Tim

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> On 10 September 2015 at 23:09, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com <mailto:tim at kartoza.com>> wrote:
> Hi Luigi
> 
> I am just writing to enquire about an offer I think you made in the past to hold a QGIS hackfest at your university. Is this something you would still be interested in doing, and would there be a potential venue for a QGIS User meeting alongside the hackfest? If this is a possibility, could you let us have some details like:
> 
> * ideal dates
> * any costs we may need to cover
> * venue information
> * transport options
> * accommodation options
> etc
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
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