2009/8/18 Sheila MacNeill <[email protected]>: > Hi Ross > > Since Scott emailed the list about this on 11 August, we now have our date > and venue confirmed - 12th October at the University of London Student > Union. We're more than happy to open this event up to public. All our > CETIS events are open but we tend to get our audience from the HE sector. > We could still have joint branding which I think would be a great idea - > would you be able to start the ball rolling on this?
Can you please provide a little detail about what and who the event is for. How many people? Would you would expect none academic folk to pay (i.e. those outside your usual audience), if so what for? Do you want the ASF to provide anything in addition to authorisation to use the brand. With respect to additional stuff I would like to make a suggestion. The ASF needs to reach out to the academic sector and make them aware of the support and infrastructure it can provide. We could ask ConCom to pay for someone to come and talk about the ASF and the academic sector (yes I could do this, but since I do this as a day job I suspect it would be good to have someone else do it. I have a couple of canditates in mind). I'll start the ball rolling over at ConCom, to get ASF approval you need a member of ConCom to back the idea (I'll do that) and two committers (Scott and Kris both have their ICLAs on file so they count). There is also a requirement for one of the team to to have experience of putting on ASF events (me again) and for one of the newbies to be willing to act as a mentor to another project wishing to put on an ASF event in the future (this may not be called upon and costs will be covered if it is). So as long as either Scott or Kris would be willing to say yes if asked (and able) all is well. ASF events must be vendor neutral, ASF events are not branded as such, they are sponsored. I know JISC CETIS well and therefore know this will not be a problem in this case (JISC CETIS are non-profit) I only mention it for completeness in the archives. However, ConCom have not done this for an incubating project yet. ConCom may wish to place some additional restrictions on the use of the brand as a result of this, I'll take this up with concom now and report back on any progress. Ross > > Many thanks > > Sheila > > > Sheila MacNeill > Assistant Director > JISC CETIS > University of Strathclyde > email:[email protected] > tel:01415484644 > skype:sheilmcn > > The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, > number SC015263. > > -- Ross Gardler OSS Watch - supporting open source in education and research http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk
