[SAC] foss4g europe ticket

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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Jachym,
I briefly checked the ticket and it should probably split into several
tasks to get done. There are some technical issues like DNS management
(I cannot do), mailing list aliases (can do, once domain is available
/ or decision for subdomaining: europe.foss... has been taken).

Redirecting to http://kahlua.eecs.jacobs-university.de/~foss4g-europe/
should only be temporary until the neutral URL is ready. Can you
please make sure that FOSS4G-E will then be available under it's own
domain?

Renaming the mailing list is a hassle and will break archives, Nabble
searches, etc. I can instead offer to close it down and create a new
one called foss4g-e and copy all existing users over. If there are no
complaints form SAC against doing this you can make this a new ticket
and assign it to me.

All the rest belongs somewhere else but for lack of the right address
I hope you can pick it up and carry it where it can be discussed by
the "right" people.


The FOSS4G-CEE to FOSS4G-E "migration" was a bit haphazard, caused
confusion and plenty of disgruntled mails in the background. The main
problem was a lack of open communication and allowing time for people
to answer. I just read your request on the conference-dev list asking
for discussion. This is maybe not the right place because conf-dev
sort of feels responsible for FOSS4G global only. We might want to
request that committee to widen it's scope?

Setting up and running a regional FOSS4G events (or with their own
name) have so far been handled by the Local Chapters. In Germany this
would have been the FOSSGIS e.V. I have not checked how many FOSSGIS
organizers are on conference-dev. My guess is not many. I'll try to
follow-up on that mail and include related mailing lists.

In general I am not sure how to position FOSS4G-E "against" things
like FOSSGIS, gfoss.it, OSGIS-UK and so on. Will FOSS4G-E "take over"
these events or replace them or should they even compete? All
questions we need to look into - but not sure what is the right place
to do this. Very apparently the FOSS4G-CEE mailing list is not enough.

Cheers,
Arnulf

On 11/18/2013 12:19 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:



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