[OSGeo-UK] Meeting to discuss FOSS4G:UK 2024

Wed Apr 3 03:19:19 PDT 2024

Hi All,

We circulated the Call for Venues and Volunteers as you will have seen. 
We had two responses, including two suggestions of locations (Dynamic 
Earth, Edinburgh, and Strathclyde Uni TIC, Glasgow) and one volunteer.

Without a core group of volunteers, a national event in 2024 is not 
possible. As discussed at the meeting, we will not be having a national 
event (local or single venue) this year. Looking forward, we will plan 
to have an event in 2025.

Further suggestions of venues and volunteers are always welcome - please 
email this list with them.

We are very happy to support individual events, so if you wish to 
organise one of these, please do. We are willing to help out where we 
can - please reach out and let us know if you would like some help.

On that note, our next event is OSGeo:UK 2024 Code Sprint - Code by the 
Coast on Tue 30th July. Please do check out the website 
https://uk.osgeo.org/code-sprint-2024.html and come along if you can.

The Newsletter is also coming together, and if you have things of 
interest for us to include, please do send them in to us.

Best wishes,
Nick.

On 27/02/2024 11:25, Antony Scott wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here are some notes from our OSGeo UK call on FOSS4G yesterday.
>
> Headline - we'd like to organise a single venue, in person, two day 
> FOSS4G event this year (it's already 5 years since the last one). 
> We'll need a suitable venue and some people to step up to organise - 
> more to follow...
>
>  OSGeo UK Call, 27th Feb 2024: FOSS4G UK 2024
>
> Present: Tom Chadmin, Dave Barter, John Stevenson, Illya Santos, 
> Steven Feldman, Nick Bearman, Al Graham, Piet Gerrits, Paul Wittle, 
> Barry Rowlingson, Guy Solomon, Rachel Talbot, Ant Scott
>
> *1. FOSS4G UK 2024: Possible venues and format*
> Options were discussed for a 2024 event, including a repeat of the 
> 'local' format of 2023 and 2022, and a single venue event. It was 
> agreed that bearing in mind the last single venue event was in 
> Edinburgh in 2019, it would be great to be able to organise one this 
> year, and possible return to the 'local' format next year. This would 
> be dependent on a suitable venue being found, and a group being 
> willing to organise. If this wasn't possible, we would leave 
> individuals to organise one off events, which we would support, but 
> there would be no coordinated national event.
>
> Other points:
> - Robust streaming is important, and should be easier at a larger 
> venue with good facilities
> - We would need to accomodate 150 - 300 people, with the ability to 
> run two or three tracks
> - Organising team would not necessarily need to be based in the host 
> location, though one or two locals would be needed
> - Date should be later than Oct onwards, and avoid clashes with other 
> key events
> - This does not preclude local events, but should not be at same time
> - Co-chairs possible
> - Event should be two days
>
> /Action: Ant to draft call for volunteers/venue suggestions, to be 
> circulated to list, put on website, broadcast etc - aim to get this 
> out by Friday 1st./
>
> *2. Email newsletter*
> Awaiting set up on Sender - Steven volunteered to do this, will liaise 
> with Al. Email address needed - Nick will sort. Ant to get contact 
> details from Eventbrite for previous FOSS4G.
> Dave recommends OSM weekly and Django as patterns. Need a means for 
> people so suggest/include content stuff easily.
>
> *3. Code sprint
> *Will be on Tuesday 30th of July in Portland, Dorset. Promotion to 
> come soon.
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 at 12:02, Nick Bearman via UK <uk at lists.osgeo.org> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hope to see some of you at 1pm, in about an hour.
>
>     If you have comments but can't make it, please let us know.
>
>     Best wishes,
>     Nick.
>
>     On 22/02/2024 13:57, Nick Bearman via UK wrote:
>     > Quick reminder, we are meeting on Monday (26th Feb) to talk about
>     > FOSS4G:UK 2024.
>     >
>     > Hope to see you there!
>     >
>     > You might be interested in reading our lessons learned from last
>     time
>     > if you want to find out more:
>     > https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guklocal2023/lessons-learned.html.
>     >
>     > Best wishes,
>     > Nick.
>     >
>     > On 15/02/2024 09:19, Nick Bearman via UK wrote:
>     >> Hi All,
>     >>
>     >> As promised at the AGM last year, I would like to arrange a
>     date to
>     >> meet up and talk about plans for FOSS4G:UK 2024
>     >>
>     >> I have set a meeting for Mon 26th Feb, 1pm - 2pm, on Google Meet
>     >> https://meet.google.com/wxn-htxj-ikh.
>     >>
>     >> We will discuss ideas for FOSS4G:UK 2024. If you have any ideas
>     but
>     >> can't make it to the meeting, please email them (to the list or
>     to me
>     >> direct) and I will make sure they are mentioned.
>     >>
>     >> I (or Ant) will circulate some notes after the meeting summarizing
>     >> our discussions/decisions.
>     >>
>     >> We will also be after volunteers, so if you are willing, please do
>     >> step forward.
>     >>
>     >> Looking forward to continuing the great FOSS4G:UK conference
>     series!
>     >>
>     >> Best wishes,
>     >>
>     >> Nick.
>     >>
>     >> Nick Bearman | OSGeo:UK Chair
>     >>
>     >>
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>     nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk
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