Re: [talk-au] [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ? - Doodle pole for kickoff meeting

2017-11-23 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi all, Lets lock in next Monday for what is the most popular timeslot: https://doodle.com/poll/s3vdegqcqrdbxq4w We will meet on IRC at: irc://freenode.net#osgeo See below for the agenda. I'll volunteer to chair this first meeting, but I won't have the bandwidth to continue playing this

Re: [talk-au] [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ? - Doodle pole for kickoff meeting

2017-11-22 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi all, For those interested in being involved in a FOSS4G-ANZ conference for 2018, I've set up a Doodle pole for a kickoff meeting next week. Please let us know when you are available. https://doodle.com/poll/s3vdegqcqrdbxq4w Meeting location: irc://freenode.net#osgeo Primary email list:

Re: [talk-au] [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?

2017-11-20 Thread David Dean
Agreed. Very interested in keeping momentum here. I have relationships with QUT, UQ and Griffith in Brisbane if that helps (although organising smaller OSM events through any of them has not been successful yet). Also, we have been discussing some of this on the MaptimeAU slack, in the #sotm

Re: [talk-au] [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?

2017-11-20 Thread Sam Wilson
Yes, hear hear for less paperwork. :-) Those wordpressians recently sided with Linux Australia, to make this sort of thing easier:https://www.linux.org.au/news/news/linux-australia-signs-mou-wordpress-community-support-facilitate-wordpress-events-australiMaybe there's some like-minded org that

Re: [talk-au] [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?

2017-11-19 Thread Cameron Shorter
Extending to be a greater Free and Open Source for Geospatial (FOSS4G) and Open Street Map event I think is viable. Re creating a legal body: I'd err on trying avoid setting up a legal body - it creates a bunch of paperwork that your volunteers have to manage and takes them away from doing

Re: [talk-au] [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?

2017-11-19 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone, I definitely want to get involved, particularly if we can incorporate a local OpenStreetMap State Of The Map (OSM SOTM) conference/track to go alongside/in partnership with F4G-AUNZ. There is some strong interest in the AU OSM community in getting something like this off the ground.