Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2020 - Halifax site causing confusion

2019-12-05 Thread Ian Turton
It seems that in the short term the best thing to do is for all of us to link to the official site and make sure that Google notices this - I've updated the link on gis.stackexchange accordingly. May be some converted tweeting and blog posting will help sway the algorithm. Ian On Fri, 29 Nov 2019

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2019 (Bucharest) Conference Videos in the TIB AV-Portal

2019-09-27 Thread Astrid Emde (OSGeo)
Hello Bastian, thanks for the great news and thanks a lot for the support from TIB. The videos are available for 3 weeks already. That's great! NEWS: The videos of this year's FOSS4G Conference in Bucharest are now available in the AV-Portal of TIB https://av.tib.eu/series/685 [1] See you A

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G TGP experiences

2018-09-26 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks Steven, I had some contact on telegram with several more travel grant recipients what would like to share their story. Is there any interest in running a second article. -- Jody Garnett On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 00:38, Steven Feldman wrote: > Jody pointed out that I posted this article in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G TGP experiences

2018-09-26 Thread adam steer
Thanks Steven, this is great and we will follow this model with our TGP in Oceania. Maria - well said. +100 Till (and all the board, and all of OSgeo) - thanks again for your support for our TGP, it’s had a fantastic response. While fairly small, it already looks like it will be instrumental in

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G TGP experiences

2018-09-26 Thread Till Adams
Dear Maria, thank you for the strong statement, especially for me (as chair), for the whole conference committee and of course for our community. Your statement clearly shows, how important TGP should be for our community and also *why*. In the next 1-2 weeks I really want to work out a proposa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G TGP experiences

2018-09-26 Thread María Arias de Reyna
Thanks Steven, It is very important to understand *why* TGP is important. Why we do what we do. It is not charity. It is not throwing money to feel better. It is not spending money for washing bad behavior.* The intent is to grow and improve our community with more and more people that, otherwise

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G Dar es Salaam

2018-06-06 Thread María Arias de Reyna
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 4:31 AM, Mark Iliffe wrote: > Hi All, > > I’m going to sleep after I send this, it’s been a very stressful few weeks > for various reasons, one of the biggest being our conference in Dar es > Salaam. I’m sitting here having my first whiskey in a while, looking out > towards

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G Dar es Salaam

2018-06-06 Thread Jachym Cepicky
Hi Mark, On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, 04:31 Mark Iliffe, wrote: > [...] Over 600 people said with one voice that they wanted to join us in Dar es > Salaam. As the clock ticks down to the event, this number will only rise > and rise! > > [...] > Not bad at all Good luck Jachym ___

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G

2016-05-28 Thread Jonathan Moules
Hi List, There has been some interesting discussion in this thread about how other conferences run, and comparisons between them and the professional/volunteer perspective. I find the cost comparison between OSM Brussels and FOSS4G quite striking. The OSM Brussels conference "professi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G

2016-05-24 Thread Benoit Fournier
Hi Johan and all, I have been involved or simply attended a few conferences, in particular OSGeo-FOSS4G France/Europe/World and OSM-SotM France/World. I would like to comment on the cost and comparison of the different events. TL;DR: I feel like FOSSDEM and State of the Map are in the same catego

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G

2016-05-22 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:56 PM, Jonathan wrote: > Hi Till, > On the issue of conferences, I'd like to chip in. I've never organised one, > but my other half has so I know how much work they are, so plenty of respect > for the effort you've both put into them. > > I suppose I'd ask two questions

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G

2016-05-13 Thread Marc Vloemans
Picking up on the thread of Steven's list of items/solutions to look into (please, provide items 7, 8 etc if other perspectives could reap solutions). and hopefully providing people additional arguments to convince partners, spouses, parents, bosses and bank managers that coming to Bonn

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G

2016-05-13 Thread Steven Feldman
Jonathan We hosted FOSS4G 2013 at the university of Nottingham. We were offered a very good deal from them but it was far from free, universities in the UK and elsewhere are encouraged to find ways to make more use of their facilities to generate additional income. We did get all of the worksho

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G

2016-05-12 Thread Jonathan
Hi Till, On the issue of conferences, I'd like to chip in. I've never organised one, but my other half has so I know how much work they are, so plenty of respect for the effort you've both put into them. I suppose I'd ask two questions of any given element of a conference - Is it necessary, a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G events - email privacy

2015-12-28 Thread Sanghee Shin
Dear All, I feel that many realised the importance and necessity of CRM here in OSGeo. So, if anybody could lead and volunteer for CRM selecting, setting-up and managing, that will be really appreciated. Board could provide necessary resources, I believe. Past FOSS4G attendees, FOSS4G and O

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G events - email privacy

2015-12-23 Thread Steven Feldman
Brilliantly summarised Marc __ Steven > On 22 Dec 2015, at 23:16, Marc Vloemans wrote: > > Dear Board et al > > Let me give an idea why some kind of CRM would be appropriate; > - finances are managed in a financial software environment like SAP > - code is managed in a SVN env like Trac >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G events - email privacy

2015-12-22 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Has anyone looked at Salesforce.com that has offers 10 free licenses to NPO's as a possible CRM solution. http://www.salesforce.com/industries/nonprofit/overview/ http://www.salesforce.org/nonprofit/ http://thirdsectorit.org/blog/the-difference-between-regular-salesforce-and-the-nonprofit-starte

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G events - email privacy

2015-12-22 Thread Marc Vloemans
Dear Board et al Let me give an idea why some kind of CRM would be appropriate; - finances are managed in a financial software environment like SAP - code is managed in a SVN env like Trac - collaboration is done in eg Google Docs - relations are managed in a CRM however none are managed in a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G events - email privacy

2015-12-22 Thread Sanghee Shin
Hi Steven, I don’t think that might be another loads of managing different lists. The core lists are only two, previous attendees and sponsors lists, 11 lists are there at MailChimp. Cheers, 신상희 --- Shin, Sanghee Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company http://www.gaia3d.com > 2015. 12. 23.,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G events - email privacy

2015-12-22 Thread Steven Feldman
Sanghee I noticed that this conversation is taking place solely on Conference list so I have extended to Discussions to gain a wider range of opinion hopefully I think it may be more work for FOSS4G LOCs and others to manage loads of different spreadsheet lists rather than maintaining one maste

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2016 host city & Planning to make use of our FOSS4G conferences to launch new Educational initiatives every year

2015-03-04 Thread Suchith Anand
Congrats to Bonn Team and great work by Dublin Team. I hope the Dublin Team will apply for FOSS4G 2017 Europe and build up your excellent efforts. Also my humble suggestion for all LOCs (present and future) and to our wider community (hence ccing in) is that we see and make use of the global an