In addition to Barry's FOSS4G update on the Discuss list (see below), I'm
happy to report that 1,000 copies of OSGeo Live DVD arrived safely this
afternoon and that they test out okay...
Many thanks to all of the Live community for their relentless work on this
great product, we're very pleased to
Thanks Barry, indeed this local committee has done an excellent job in
keeping the community and the Board uptodate with progress.
I also love the image of your smoky old blue Land Rover arriving: if it
wasn't for the ocean, I would drive my old black Dodge Dakota into the
EMCC car park, and you c
About this time next week an old blue Land Rover will roll smokily
into the car park at the EMCC in Nottingham. I will have arrived at
FOSS4G.
Steven instigated these update emails in order to keep the OSGeo
community up-to-date with conference planning after the disconnect
between the local organ
The conference is now 20 days away. Less than three weeks. As Jeremy
said at our last teleconference, this time next month it will be all
over...
So we are now getting things done and deadlines for various things are
looming up (and unlike Douglas Adams we do not enjoy the whooshing
sound of them
osgeo-discuss
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update
Hi all,
As a previous FOSS4G chair I would just appeal to everyone to go easy on the
organizing team. I was not involved in the selection process this time but I do
know there was a high number of workshops that were submitte
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2013 Nottingham Update
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Date: Saturday, May 11, 2013, 6:12 PM
On 11/05/13 07:54, pcr...@pcreso.com wrote:
> I think a community vote on workshops is a good idea, and if there is good
> support for more than
planned, I'd suggest t
On 11/05/13 07:54, pcr...@pcreso.com wrote:
I think a community vote on workshops is a good idea, and if there is
good support for more than planned, I'd suggest the plan needs
changing, rather than reduce the relevance & value of the event that
the attendees have voted for.
I'm aware this m
As an attendee (rather than presenter) of FOSS4G workshops, I note that several
I consider of value are not there, while some that are not of interest to me
(yes - a PERSONAL opinion :-) are.
I'm not saying the organisers have made a mistake, it may well be I'm just way
out in left field. But
+10, the workshops selection is always contentious, and there are
always people disappointed, since the number of slots is so limited.
It's a difficult part of the organizing process to make and stand by
those decisions. I'm glad Barry is working on his optimization
algorithm, so we can finally put
Hi all,
As a previous FOSS4G chair I would just appeal to everyone to go easy on
the organizing team. I was not involved in the selection process this time
but I do know there was a high number of workshops that were submitted, so
unfortunately half the submitters are going to be disappointed and
I concur with Markus.
I was also surprised to see none of our GeoNetwork related workshops
represented although they were always well received at previous conferences. It
would have been nice if we'd had feedback on the reasoning behind that.
Considering about half the national INSPIRE geospati
On 5/10/13, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:27 AM, andrea antonello
> wrote:
>
>> Also I would have another wish. Is there a way to understand how the
>> workshops were chosen.
>> I see important projects missing, whereas several have kind of
>> "double" or even "triple" works
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Peter Baumann
wrote:
> +1 here. I believe this should not be a Postgres event (substitute Postgres by
> your favorite), but allow to gather folks from as many domains as possible.
> This
> would mean to give space to as many projects as possible, and I personally
Hi all,
On 05/10/2013 09:06 AM, andrea antonello wrote:
Hi Barry,
The workshop selection process was handed to our workshop subcommittee
- I've asked them to respond to these issues here on the mailing list
and personally to you two if that's necessary.
thanks, an open answer is perfectly fin
Hi Barry,
> The workshop selection process was handed to our workshop subcommittee
> - I've asked them to respond to these issues here on the mailing list
> and personally to you two if that's necessary.
thanks, an open answer is perfectly fine for me. I am not arguing, I
am just interested in kn
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Barry Rowlingson <
b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> The balance looks quite good to me, where there is duplication it
> seems to be different aspects of the same project - Postgis Intro and
> Postgis 3d have different audiences, for example. Its possible that
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 7:27 AM, andrea antonello
wrote:
> Also I would have another wish. Is there a way to understand how the
> workshops were chosen.
> I see important projects missing, whereas several have kind of
> "double" or even "triple" workshops.
> Given the few available slots, I would
Hi Barry, Maxi,
> first of all thanks for the hard work of selecting workshops for foss4g 2013
>
> I would have appreciate a acceptance/rejection message with motivation for
> workshop that has not been selected..
> So that next time the proposal could be improved..
I second this.
Also I would h
Dear Barry,
first of all thanks for the hard work of selecting workshops for foss4g 2013
I would have appreciate a acceptance/rejection message with motivation for
workshop that has not been selected..
So that next time the proposal could be improved..
Do you think my wish could be addressed?
Th
On 2013-05-08 9:03 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> Massive thanks to Jeff McKenna for the
> community vote system.
Credit all goes to Paul Ramsey for this voting system.
Barry keep up the great work! I admire your group's FOSS4G passion.
-jeff
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I hope none of you on this list have missed any of the big news about
FOSS4G2013 - we're trying to ramp up the publicity and if its not
getting through to OSGeo-discuss list followers then we're probably
not getting through to enough people outside it! Catch it all by
following @foss4g and RT the g
Last week's committee conference call was a bit sparse, as it was
close to Easter and various members were lucky enough to be away from
the freezing weather in the UK.
Since my last update we hit the T-6 month countdown. Things are
rapidly moving on. We are already getting registrations for the
co
The latest update after nearly two hours of today's webex meeting,
which featured Mark Iliffe sounding like he was in a call centre, a
dog barking somewhere, and for the first time my microphone actually
working.
First order of business was pricing - there were some fine adjustments
to the costing
Barry,
These FOSS4G updates to the Discuss list are a good initiative.
Well done to you and the team.
Bruce
On 18/01/13 1:48 AM, "Barry Rowlingson" wrote:
Another of the irregular updates of the conference team!
We have our first sponsors - Ordnance Survey (yes, another 'OS')
Google, Edina,
Another of the irregular updates of the conference team!
We have our first sponsors - Ordnance Survey (yes, another 'OS')
Google, Edina, MapGears, and Metaspatial have all got in with our
early-bird 10% discount sponsor deal. The rest of you have until the
end of the month, then it goes up to full
The big news for FOSS4G 2013 is the announcement of the sponsorship packages:
http://2013.foss4g.org/sponsorship-opportunities/
A press release has been written and is ready to go out to press
contacts. Announcements of sponsors will surely follow.
The logo has been refined, thanks to Naomi G
On Oct 1, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Barry Rowlingson
wrote:
> social trips (caves anyone?
> http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/caves-of-nottingham_11.html),
Even though Kimbereley is no more, how 'bout ye olde trip to jerusalem?
http://www.triptojerusalem.com/
--
Puneet Kishor
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All the news that's fit to print from your FOSS4G 2013 committee..
The biggie is that the deal is now done with Transactions in GIS that
a number of papers from the Academic Track submissions will be
accepted into the journal for publishing. "TGIS" as it is known, "is
an international, peer-review
Hi all,
The local organising group of FOSS4G 2013 met in Nottingham yesterday
for our first face-to-face meeting. This was after a successful and
enjoyable OSGIS UK conference.
One of my jobs is now to keep a semi-regular update to the OSGeo
mailing lists. You'll probably get all this info if y
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