Hi Everyone,
FYI, at the Vienna Sprint two weeks ago, we had a similar discussion
about the (lack of) decision process for the location of FOSS4G-Europe.
The people involved in the discussion included past FOSS4G and
FOSS4G-CEE organizers, some key members of the EU community and a few
board members, and the conclusion on the question of the decision
process was that OSGeo (the international body) and its conference
committee were not the right people to make the decision on the
FOSS4G-Europe location, and it was proposed to invite all local chapters
in Europe to appoint one rep to a FOSS4G-EU conference committee that
would make the decision on the location of the event. The creation of
this FOSS4G-EU committee should be discussed on the local-chapters list
at some point.
I am reporting this here because the same could possibly apply to
FOSS4G-NA: the global OSGeo may not be the best entity to decide on the
location of FOSS4G-NA and maybe we should defer to reps of the local
chapters in the region?
Let's keep this in mind when we discuss this in the board meeting.
BTW, if there is only one candidate for FOSS4G-NA 2015 then there is no
need for a formal decision process and we should keep things simple, but
sooner or later the need will arise.
Daniel
On 14-04-07 1:59 PM, Andrew Ross wrote:
Bart,
Sure, I can make that time and I'm glad to have a dialogue about it.
Thanks for suggesting.
Kind regards,
Andrew
On 07/04/14 13:31, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
Hey Andrew,
we have a board meeting this Thursday so maybe we can discuss it there
as well given this is urgent?
I’ll add it to the agenda, would you be available on IRC for any
questions?
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2014-04-10
Best regards,
Bart
On 07 Apr 2014, at 19:04, Andrew Ross <andrew.r...@eclipse.org
<mailto:andrew.r...@eclipse.org>> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
For those that might be interested in participating in this &
especially up front in terms of outreach & helping sort out details
to tune the idea so it works well, please contact me. Thank you very
much to those that have already.
Some important decisions require immediate attention such as which
city, what dates, and so forth.
Some possible cities suggested by people, for 2015, include:
D.C., San Francisco, Boston, San Diego
In terms of dates, late March or early April would be offset from the
global FOSS4G & also from other very busy periods in the calendar. It
lines up with EclipseCon, which co-hosting helps reduce organizing
burden. For what it's worth, the overall conference would not be
called EclipseCon to appeal to all constituents.
Thoughts?
Thanks again,
Andrew
On 04/04/14 17:02, Andrew Ross wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Please excuse the cross post between OSGeo's discuss &
conference_dev lists as well as LocationTech's discussion list. I'm
hoping to enable inclusive discussion about an idea.
Bit of background, this coming May (19-21), LocationTech Summit is
co-hosted with Location Intelligence in Washington D.C.
<http://www.locationintelligence.net/>. Travel restrictions for
Federal Government employees for instance meant holding this in D.C.
was important in 2014.
We have started planning for 2015, and I wanted to reach out and see
if an idea might be of interest to the greater community.
The idea is to co-host LocationTech Summit, FOSS4G North America,
and EclipseCon next year in the spring.
For those that haven't been:
* EclipseCon is a great developer conference & covers topics that
I feel may be a really nice complement such as Science, Internet
of Things, Automotive, Software development best practice, and
more. While there are some awesome talks in the area, it's not
just about the IDE. :-)
* FOSS4G NA is the regional sibling of FOSS4G Global, also a great
developer conference, and focused on geospatial technologies. It
is a must attend event if you're into web mapping or looking for
open source GIS solutions.
* LocationTech Summit is new (first one this May), similar to
FOSS4G however perhaps has a stronger focus on high performance
geoprocessing technologies and new technologies like GeoGit for
instance.
* My feeble attempt at contrast aside, I think these last two will
see a lot of the same speakers & audience.
A few thoughts:
* We believe a combined event could likely be done to prioritize
camaraderie which is so important for open source projects &
community. i.e. avoid anyone feeling lost in a huge event.
* We feel the mutual outreach to people across communities would
be really useful, interesting, and spark wonderful ideas we
can't predict.
* The logistical work can be done by full time conference
organizers who organize EclipseCon each year. The program is up
to the communities to set.
* For those seeking suppliers, partners, & customers, this should
make for more opportunities.
* Profit sharing with significant participating groups is doable.
We're glad to help figure out a fair and amicable solution.
* Ensuring each group are well served is a priority of course. We
think this combined event might attract people who might not
otherwise come to any of them. But we'll have to try and see.
Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? Is this a good idea? Interested?
Kind regards,
Andrew
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