Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [location-iwg] FOSS4G North America selection process

[Andrew Ross]

Hey Everyone,

(again, x-posted to LocationTech & OSGeo lists, please do forward to any 
with interest)


A quick update on this. It looks like all concerns raised have been 
addressed. If there's anything outstanding that hasn't been raised yet, 
please do raise it by end of day today, Wednesday April 29, 2015.


After which, we'll resolve anything outstanding and then move to ratify 
this first version by rough consensus & calling for those that support 
it to add their names. A good number of people participated including 
many past chairs, so we're hoping support will be strong.


The process details how updates can be made after that.

Deep thanks to the many people who participated in this. Thank you!

Andrew

On 22/04/15 20:37, Andrew Ross wrote:

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 
. 
Anyone can comment. All discussion takes place via. a Google group 
here .


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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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Europe 2015 - deadline for early bird fee

[Clément Igonet]

Who would pay my plane ticket?

On 2015-04-29 18:05, Marco Minghini wrote:

Dear all,

this is to remind that tomorrow (April 30) will be the last day to
register to FOSS4G Europe 2015 with early bird fee: 50 euros
(students) and 100 euros (regular).

From May 1 the fees will double: 100 euros (students) and 200 euros
(regular).

Thank you all for your attention and I am looking forward to meeting
you in the beautiful Como.

All the best,

Marco

Marco Minghini, Ph.D.
GEO Laboratory, Politecnico di Milano - Como Campus
via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como (Italy)
+39 031 3327540

marco.mingh...@polimi.it
@MarcoMinghini

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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Europe 2015 - deadline for early bird fee

[Marco Minghini]

Dear all,

this is to remind that tomorrow (April 30) will be the last day to register
to FOSS4G Europe 2015 with early bird fee: 50 euros (students) and 100
euros (regular).

>From May 1 the fees will double: 100 euros (students) and 200 euros
(regular).

Thank you all for your attention and I am looking forward to meeting you in
the beautiful Como.
All the best,

Marco


Marco Minghini, Ph.D.
GEO Laboratory, Politecnico di Milano - Como Campus
via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como (Italy)
+39 031 3327540
marco.mingh...@polimi.it
@MarcoMinghini
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[OSGeo-Discuss] [FOSS4G Seoul]Presentation Submission Extended to 15th, May.

[Sanghee Shin]

Dear All, 

Presentation submission extended to 15th, May. 

It is our great pleasure that we announce the extended deadline to submit 
Presentations for International FOSS4G 2015, taking place from 14 – 19 
September 2015 in Seoul, Korea. So we encourage you to submit now! To submit 
your Presentations, please visit the conference website: 
http://2015.foss4g.org/programme/presentations/ 
 

Important Dates:
– Call for Presentations will be announced on 23rd, February.
– Call for Presentations will be closed on 15th, May.
– Call for Academic Abstracts will be closed on 15th, May.
– Community Voting on Presentation will begin on 25th, May.
– Community Voting on Presentation will end on 5th, June.
– Presentation Selection will be announced on 15th, June.
– Final Academic Abstract Selection will be made on 15th, June.
– Early Bird Registration will end on 22nd, June.
– Preliminary Program Decisions will be announced on 29th, June.
– Final Full paper Submission of selected abstracts 15th, August.

Call for Presentation and Academic Abstract will close on the same date, 15th, 
May.

All the best, 

Sanghee



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Sanghee Shin, Chair of FOSS4G 2015 Seoul 
"Toward Diversity! FOSS4G Bigbang from Seoul!"
http://2015.foss4g.org
Twitter: @foss4g
Facebook: FOSS4G2015
email: foss4gch...@osgeo.org



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[OSGeo-Discuss] r100 as OpenStandard: start in Nepal?

[Munich Orientation Convention]

Dear all,

 

a member of OSGeo was the opinion, not only r100 should be OpenStandard. The
following answer may be of interest:

 

The actual question is: is r100 an useful tool or not? If not, the
discussion can end here.

If yes (also considering the needs of average people, the blind, children,
ancients etc. ), anyone can use it for free. Example Nepal
www.volksnav.de/r100Nepal.  

 

But what can happen? According to my experience, a lot of experts will try
to "improve" this tool with another colors, another dimensions, another
names, even another shapes :-). Strong arguments like "never change a
winning team" and "ten thousand experts can't be wrong", can deteriorate
r100 to green squares with 50 different names around other urban poles I've
defined after many years of hard work.  

 

In this very special case, cost free tools could be counterproductive. What
costs little is worth less. What costs nothing looks like actual post codes
(who still needs them?). The solution I see to avoid another Babel tower is:
symbolical fees. Can you imagine arguments against this regulation tool? 

 

Let's see an example: are you as a possible visitor the opinion that
FOSS4G2015 shouldn't introduce additional indoor and urban orientation tools
for you than "here"   http://2015.foss4g.org/ (see
map below) because of a fee of EUR 2,-?

 

Henrique

 

 

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