[Southeast-US] Southeast-US Digest, Vol 1, Issue 5

Wed Apr 29 12:33:26 PDT 2015

I'd recommend either Athens GA or Austin TX for the next FOSS4G NA 2016.

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>    1. Update On SE OSGEO (Randal Hale)
>    2. Re: Update On SE OSGEO (Newcomb, Doug)
>    3. Fwd: [location-iwg] FOSS4G North America selection        process
>       (Randal Hale)
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> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 22:03:41 -0400
> From: Randal Hale <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>
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> Subject: [Southeast-US] Update On SE OSGEO
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> So I made the Georgia URISA Student day. The banner for SE OSGEO - well
> - ended up being just a me at a table. The tables were less than optimal
> for much of anything. I did hand out some OSGEO 8.5 Live DVD's....to
> which most of the students went "DVD's what are those?". I was able to
> sign up 3 or 4 students on the list and make a good effort at explaining
> why we needed an OSGEO group to students who only know one brand of
> software -  not that's there's anything wrong with that - but it could
> be better.
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> Right now we're up to 30 members on the list - we seem to be adding
> about 2 people per day.
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> Onward and Forward,
> Randy
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> Randal Hale
> North River Geographic Systems, Inc
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> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 08:05:20 -0400
> From: "Newcomb, Doug" <doug_newcomb at fws.gov>
> To: Randal Hale <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>
> Cc: southeast-us <southeast-us at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Southeast-US] Update On SE OSGEO
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> Randy,
> Thanks for taking the time to attend and do outreach !  I wonder if, in
> addition to OSGEO Live DVDs, CD/DVDs with standalone Windows versions of
> QGIS, GRASS, Postgresql/postgis, etc.  and/or the OSGeo4W installer might
> be a good idea . ( Much as Windows is not my preferred platform :-)).
>
> Doug
>
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Randal Hale <
> rjhale at northrivergeographic.com> wrote:
>
> > So I made the Georgia URISA Student day. The banner for SE OSGEO - well -
> > ended up being just a me at a table. The tables were less than optimal
> for
> > much of anything. I did hand out some OSGEO 8.5 Live DVD's....to which
> most
> > of the students went "DVD's what are those?". I was able to sign up 3 or
> 4
> > students on the list and make a good effort at explaining why we needed
> an
> > OSGEO group to students who only know one brand of software -  not that's
> > there's anything wrong with that - but it could be better.
> >
> > Right now we're up to 30 members on the list - we seem to be adding about
> > 2 people per day.
> >
> > Onward and Forward,
> > Randy
> >
> > --
> > --------------------------------------------
> > Randal Hale
> > North River Geographic Systems, Inc
> > http://www.northrivergeographic.com
> > 423.653.3611 rjhale at northrivergeographic.com
> > twitter:rjhale     http://about.me/rjhale
> > http://www.northrivergeographic.com/introduction-to-quantum-gis
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> Doug Newcomb
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> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:28:10 -0400
> From: Randal Hale <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>
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> Subject: [Southeast-US] Fwd: [location-iwg] FOSS4G North America
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> FYI
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> From: "Andrew Ross" <andrew.ross at eclipse.org>
> Date: Apr 22, 2015 8:37 PM
> Subject: [location-iwg] FOSS4G North America selection process
> To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>, "Location IWG" <
> location-iwg at locationtech.org>
> Cc:
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>  Dear Everyone,
>
> (x-posted to OSGeo & LocationTech discussion lists, please fwd to all
> interested parties)
>
> As a fairly new conference, FOSS4G North America has lacked a formal
> selection process in terms of how to select which city/venue, who was
> organizing, and more. Until now...
>
> A team of concerned people from the community including many past chairs of
> North American FOSS4G events have collaborated to draft a proposal for how
> FOSS4G North America will be governed.
>
> On behalf of the team, we would like to invite you to review the draft and
> participate in the process. The review period will last until April 29th.
> After which, we will enact the process for FOSS4G NA 2016.
>
> The governance document is available publicly here
> <
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WlgmJgtl0LaV0EO0NtDDSnloTgsIvxu9KwddPDwX1WU/edit#
> >.
> Anyone can comment. All discussion takes place via. a Google group here
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/foss4gna_selection>.
>
> A brief summary is as follows:
>
> The city & venue selection process will be conducted by a committee
> consisting of:
>
>    - The 3 most recent FOSS4G NA chairs
>    - One appointed representative from OSGeo
>    - One appointed representative from LocationTech
>
> The committee will select the next conference location factoring their
> votes, plus votes from attendees & sponsors from the previous conference.
> The same committee will also select the organization to run the logistics
> for the conference. The conference chair will be elected at the previous
> conference by conference attendees.
>
> If you're interested, please do join the Google group to discuss and
> participate. Thanks in advance.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Andrew
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