Thanks Andrew, I'd concur with your points. Closer to our dates (which I'm afraid are absolutely fixed in stone now as they've been published and even more to the point because we have no wriggle room on availability of space in the EMCC & in the university) seems to us to be a lot more compelling in drawing the international audience. There's also the possible synergies in organisation too.
Regards, Jeremy On 21/12/2012 17:07, "Andrew Mackenzie" <a.macken...@bethere.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Jeremy and Mappa Mercia people > I spoke with Bob Barr (AGI) about this recently and whilst he was enthusiastic > about a Midlands UK SOTM bid he shares the concern that if the dates are not > closely aligned with FOSS4G we risk diluting attendance at both events. > Jonathan@Spiffymap has also made the point that asking people to commit to > travel abroad for more than 2 weeks would increase their costs and impact on > work commitments. > The current Mappa Mercia proposal is for 6th to 8th. I would support 12-14th > or even 14-16th with a day's overlap. If we can co-ordinate on the programme > we could avoid clashes of content. If you were travelling from Japan, say, a > week 14-21st is possible. 6th to 21st is unrealistic for most people. > > Both these events rely on voluntary effort to succeed. I think it is more > rewarding for volunteers, as well as easier to raise sponsorship, to promote > one packed week of open geo as a joint effort than two separate events. > > best > Andrew > On 21 Dec 2012, at 15:35, Jeremy Morley <jeremy.mor...@nottingham.ac.uk> > wrote: > >> >> Dear all, >> >> Sorry to land suddenly in this list. Most of you won't know me - I work at >> the University of Nottingham (as my sig says) in GIS. I've been part of >> research work relating to OSM at UCL in the past, and the group I lead also >> research or interact with OSM in various ways (e.g. the OSM-GB project, >> osmgb.org.uk ). >> >> We also work in open source GIS and with OSGeo and it's with that hat on >> that I'm actually emailing. I'm one of the co-chairs for the FOSS4G >> conference in September 2013 that's being organised at the East Midlands >> Conference Centre here in Nottingham, back-to-back with the AGI GeoCommunity >> conference. In different ways there will be activities running from 16-22 >> September though our main dates are 17-21 Sept. I've cc'ed Steven Feldman >> and Jo Cook on this email who are the Chair and the other Co-Chair >> respectively. >> >> Speaking for the FOSS4G local organisers, we're really keen to see >> complementarity between the SotM and FOSS4G (and GeoCom, whose working group >> I'm on as a FOSS4G liaison). We'd like to work with you on how all these >> events can profit from each other. I'm happy to be a point of contact, at >> least for now. It seems to me that Birmingham is more useful for SotM/FOSS4G >> interaction than Durham or Southampton! >> >> I've not been able to back-track on the OSM mailing lists as to when you're >> aiming at actually holding the conference, possibly because I'm not on the >> Mappa Mercia lists. Our strong hope would be that you'd go for the 12-14 >> Sept time frame. >> >> Anyway, I hope I/we (the FOSS4G LOC) can be helpful and constructive and >> really get the communities together in the UK in September. Please do drop >> me a line if you want to interact on this. I'd be happy to be added to the >> Mappa Mercia discussion if appropriate. >> >> Regards, >> Jeremy >> >> -- ------------------------------------------------------------ -- >> Jeremy Morley >> Geospatial Science Theme Leader, Nottingham Geospatial Institute, >> Triumph Road, University of Nottingham. NG7 2TU, United Kingdom. >> Web: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi Twitter: jeremy_morley >> Tel.: +44/0 115 84 68411 >> Email: jeremy.mor...@nottingham.ac.uk >> >> >> This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may >> contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, >> please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. 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