[VisCom] Geospatial Events calendar?

[Arnulf Christl]

Tim Bowden wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 11:17 -0800, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>> On 10-Jan-07, at 9:22 AM, Tim Bowden wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, I've just had a look at those links and the first question I  
>>> have to
>>> ask is where does that leave us with our stand at the lca open day?
>>> (http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Australia#LCA_Open_Day)  We haven't
>>> gone through any of the process outined; I guess we just assumed we
>>> could do an OSGeo promotion; probably because it's all been a rush job
>>> on short notice.  Given Frank and Tyler's positive response so far I
>>> assume that's not too much of a problem ;-)  Whatever we do, we  
>>> have to
>>> be quick as we have only 1 week till the open day to get organised.
>> I think we're all happy to see you organising something and that  
>> Arnulf's comments may be more focused on larger, more formal events  
>> that need more OSGeo official help (i.e. funding, volunteer  
>> enticement, etc).  At least I am happy to see a local group  
>> organising a presence at this event.  


Hi Tim,
I am sorry if I gave the impression that I wanted to impose any kind of hard regulatory to your initiative. This was not my intention. Instead I wanted to help and provide you with the corresponding Wiki-think. I added Event Owner to your name. (If you don't like it, go hack it. Its a Wiki). Being Event Owner in your case only means that anybody who wants to join in with help locally knows who he can talk to. As already mentioned the formality of the process is proportional to the size of the event and the risk you want to take on personally. In this case I'd say no problems.

Putting it in the [[Category:Events]] (right at the bottom of the page) gives an overview of all events that are firmly planned and still take place here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Category:Events

After you are done this changes to [[Category:Past Events]] and maybe you add a few pictures or a comment on how useful it was to you and the world. 

All this provides for a formal frame that is recognized by Google helping to promote things and gives VisCom an overview of what Events currently are on.

Best regards, 
Arnulf.