Re: [talk-au] [FOSS4G-Oceania] Considering future Open Geospatial conferences in Oceania

[adam steer]

hey community

I want to temper this a little with Bruce Bannerman’s recent and very
relevant comments on where OSGeo Oceania and FOSS4G SotM Oceania are at.
The main question being:

‘how many things can we do at once?’

In my mind, a laser focus on bedding in OSGeo Oceania and sorting out all
the wrinkles with respect to OSGeo and OSM chapterhood / board processes /
who the org represents / how to represent people who don’t feel immediately
bonded to the idea is the first community priority.

Yes, since 2017 we’ve had remarkable success and we should aim to keep that
momentum. To use an analogy, I feel this revitalised fast-growing tree of
OSGeo Oceania needs a broader base and deeper roots right now.

We need to establish and broaden our regional connections and volunteer
base.

With that in mind, it’s definitely time to start thinking about a 2020
regional event. I’m sure the OSGeo Oceania board will be looking for
proposals soon!

Those are my thoughts - I hope they’re taken as virtual organic mulch and
well composted manure for the future of OSGeo Oceania, and not cold water….

Regards,

Adam
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Re: [talk-au] [FOSS4G-Oceania] GHG mitigation and FOSS4G SotM Oceania

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

I've also seen reference to investing in mangroves.

Can't see the particular reference just now, but this also discusses the
concept further

http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/wwf_iucn_mangroves_investment_effectiveness_guide.pdf


Possibly another option?

Thanks

Graeme
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[talk-au] Considering future Open Geospatial conferences in Oceania

[John Bryant]

Hi all, please see the following message below:

“What should we do about upcoming conferences for Free and Open Source
Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) and State of the Map (SotM) within our
Oceania region?”

Image by @mapmakerdavid


We didn’t have an answer to this question at the last OSGeo Oceania board
meeting. At the moment, no one is volunteering to chair. No one is backing
a city with commitment, and that is a problem we hope to solve.

Pertinent is that the international FOSS4G will be held somewhere outside
of Europe or North America in 2021 and a call for a two-page Expression Of
Interest is coming in September
. We have a very
compelling
case 
for bringing the international community to our region, if we try.

Are you keen to see FOSS4G & SotM continue in our region? Do you have ideas
about where and how? Would you like to help make it happen? Are you
interested in mentoring or being mentored by a bunch of committed
volunteers who have worked on prior FOSS4G events? If so, why don’t you
talk to us? Come join our email list
 and introduce
yourself. We particularly want to hear ideas about what we should do about
FOSS4G in the next two years.

Some history:

   -

   2009: FOSS4G-International in Sydney. During the global financial
   crisis, we had lower attendance than expected, but managed to stay
   profitable when similar conferences were losing money.
   -

   2018: FOSS4G SotM Oceania in Melbourne. Exceeded expectations for size,
   sponsorship, activities, and engagement.
   -

   2019: FOSS4G SotM Oceania Wellington :
   Has already exceeded sponsorship targets and sold out early bird tickets
   within a week.
   -

   *2020: FOSS4G SotM Oceania: Where?*
   -

   *2021: FOSS4G-International Should we bid for it?*


We are looking forward to hearing from you,

John Bryant (OSGeo Oceania president) and Cameron Shorter (scribe).
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Re: [talk-au] [FOSS4G-Oceania] GHG mitigation and FOSS4G SotM Oceania

[Dion Moult]

I don't want to discourage from the local woodlands initiative, I think it's 
absolutely great to do.

I did want to being up the Cool Earth charity[1], which has been through lots 
of independent evaluation as to their effectiveness. Independent analysis 
suggests that their rate is at 0.71 USD per tCO2eq[2], but on their website it 
seems to be higher, approximately 2AUD per tCO2eq.

If you wanted to consider more than carbon... I have done some really ballpark 
explorations here:

https://thinkmoult.com/effective-altruism-living-net-positive-life.html

Great initiative!

1. https://www.coolearth.org/
2. https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/report/cool-earth/#3-overall-evaluation

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On 8 Aug. 2019, 5:47 pm, John Bryant wrote:

> Great work Adam! I agree this looks like a worthwhile program.
>
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 09:45, Edoardo Neerhut  wrote:
>
>> Fantastic work on this Adam. Parks Victoria would be a wonderful 
>> organisation to fund offset with. Much better than a Cayman Island 
>> registered organisation with plantations in the Amazon. Hopefully the costs 
>> of this approach are within the real of possibility for us.
>>
>> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 15:26, adam steer  wrote:
>>
>>> hey folks
>>>
>>> waking this conversation up again - there’s some interest from Parks 
>>> Victoria around applying funding from a GHG offset scheme to restore yellow 
>>> box woodland - which is direct, local and observable.
>>>
>>> I started making some calculations here: 
>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DGcpUCO6pHhKutoCh8qh1FcIrnXjyYQ_kOEIf5nCnGw/edit?usp=sharing
>>>
>>> …using the ICAO flight emissions calculator. So far we’re up to about 48t 
>>> CO2 based on my assumptions around who comes from where - and no additions 
>>> from south pacific islands yet. If you have any input on those numbers 
>>> please add comments.
>>>
>>> Next step is to work more on how much money is appropriate for a programme 
>>> to sequester 48t of CO2 based on existing offset programmes. Then, have a 
>>> chat with Parks Victoria around how far that amount goes.
>>>
>>> I’ll add those estimates in the same sheet.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
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Re: [talk-au] [FOSS4G-Oceania] GHG mitigation and FOSS4G SotM Oceania

[John Bryant]

Great work Adam! I agree this looks like a worthwhile program.

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 09:45, Edoardo Neerhut  wrote:

> Fantastic work on this Adam. Parks Victoria would be a wonderful
> organisation to fund offset with. Much better than a Cayman Island
> registered organisation with plantations in the Amazon. Hopefully the costs
> of this approach are within the real of possibility for us.
>
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 15:26, adam steer  wrote:
>
>> hey folks
>>
>> waking this conversation up again - there’s some interest from Parks
>> Victoria around applying funding from a GHG offset scheme to restore yellow
>> box woodland - which is direct, local and observable.
>>
>> I started making some calculations here:
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DGcpUCO6pHhKutoCh8qh1FcIrnXjyYQ_kOEIf5nCnGw/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>> …using the ICAO flight emissions calculator. So far we’re up to about 48t
>> CO2 based on my assumptions around who comes from where - and no additions
>> from south pacific islands yet. If you have any input on those numbers
>> please add comments.
>>
>> Next step is to work more on how much money is appropriate for a
>> programme to sequester 48t of CO2 based on existing offset programmes.
>> Then, have a chat with Parks Victoria around how far that amount goes.
>>
>> I’ll add those estimates in the same sheet.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
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Re: [talk-au] [FOSS4G-Oceania] GHG mitigation and FOSS4G SotM Oceania

[Edoardo Neerhut]

Fantastic work on this Adam. Parks Victoria would be a wonderful
organisation to fund offset with. Much better than a Cayman Island
registered organisation with plantations in the Amazon. Hopefully the costs
of this approach are within the real of possibility for us.

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 15:26, adam steer  wrote:

> hey folks
>
> waking this conversation up again - there’s some interest from Parks
> Victoria around applying funding from a GHG offset scheme to restore yellow
> box woodland - which is direct, local and observable.
>
> I started making some calculations here:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DGcpUCO6pHhKutoCh8qh1FcIrnXjyYQ_kOEIf5nCnGw/edit?usp=sharing
>
> …using the ICAO flight emissions calculator. So far we’re up to about 48t
> CO2 based on my assumptions around who comes from where - and no additions
> from south pacific islands yet. If you have any input on those numbers
> please add comments.
>
> Next step is to work more on how much money is appropriate for a programme
> to sequester 48t of CO2 based on existing offset programmes. Then, have a
> chat with Parks Victoria around how far that amount goes.
>
> I’ll add those estimates in the same sheet.
>
> Regards
>
> Adam
>
>
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