[OSGeo-UK] Planning a UK FOSS4G event in 2016

[Suchith Anand]

Hi Jo,

This is an excellent idea. 

I am ccing Geo4All lists as we now have 7 Open Source Geospatial Labs established  in the UK ( University of Newcastle, UCL , University of South Wales, University of Southampton, University of Warwick, University of Gloucestershire, University of Nottingham )  , so if any of them are interested they can contact you directly and help with the venue logistics. It is important that  the event is  held somewhere other than Nottingham to ensure there is more distribution of activities. 

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: Jo Cook [jocook at astuntechnology.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 12:32 PM
To: uk at lists.osgeo.org; Addy Pope; Claire Gilmour; Abigail Page; Jo Cook; Rollo Home; Mark Iliffe; Suchith Anand; Ian Holt; Barry Rowlingson; Matt Walker; Jeremy Morley; Antony Scott; Ian Edwards; Steven Feldman
Subject: Planning a UK FOSS4G event in 2016

Dear OSGeo:UK list, and FOSS4G 2013 team members,

The OSGeo:UK chapter is planning to hold a FOSS4G-style event in the UK in 2016, and we're after volunteers to help us run it.

This won't be the main FOSS4G event, or even a FOSS4G-Eurpoe, and neither will it be an OSGIS, but something different. Details are sketchy (pretty much non-existent) at present, but it's going to be quite light-touch, and focused on users and developers (there won't be an academic track, although academics are of course welcome to come along). We are considering a hackathon and workshops, and potentially a developer code-sprint.

If you'd like to be involved, then you should be aware that there will be some time commitment needed in working hours, from the outset, and ramping up as we get closer to the event. Even light-touch events need a lot of organisation!

If you haven't been put off by these caveats, then please get in touch, either by replying to this thread or by contacting me directly. We will need to put a limit on the number of people that we include on the team, depending on interest, but there will also be opportunities to assist during the event itself.

Thanks

Jo

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