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

[Mark Iliffe]

Sounds great all! I’ll be more able to help out post October!

Best,

Mark
> On 30 Jul 2015, at 15:08, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com <mailto:jocook at astuntechnology.com>> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Sounds fun, count me in. I'm finding conferences full of "look at
> this cool thing *I* did" presentations a bit pointless, so a chance to
> influence an event and have more varied sessions appeals. Would be
> great to get a lot of training sessions in - I'd go for an OpenSource
> TrainingFest...
> 
> Barry

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