[talk-au] LCA2010 - Paper Declined
We're off the hook for big talk, and as it was a rushed proposal we will need to make a better one next time. I still don't have the passport, am waiting on a bureaucratic piece of nonsense in which the original certificate of marriage is unsuitable to verify a name change. 1) get certified copy of ID (eg passport) 2) send form, copy of ID, money to Qld hatches matches and despatches to get certified copy of extract from marriage register 3) apply for passport 4) note that Passports Australia has an electronic link to Qld hatches matches and despatches to verify the name change so why do i need a certified copy from the register?? Dear Elizabeth, Thank you for you submission, but with regret, your Presentation proposal OpenStreetMap - open source mapping has not been selected for LCA2010 in Wellington, New Zealand. Given the large numbers of papers we have had to decline, our policy is to not provide specific reasons for rejecting any papers. As with previous years, the papers submitted were of exceptionally high quality and LCA2010 only has a limited number of talk slots available. We will soon announce the Call for Papers for the selected Miniconfs and you may be contacted by a Miniconf organiser if he/she feels that your paper is appropriate for that audience. http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/miniconfs Registrations for LCA2010 open in mid-to-late September and we hope you will consider attending LCA2010 as a delegate or volunteer! Yours, Glynn Foster LCA2010 Speakers Liaison speak...@lca2010.org.nz ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] LCA2010
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:34:52 +1000 Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: ok, I've put my name down. it was a 5 minute effort so if they want us we'll be asked and if they needed convincing we will have to try again. I think that means you did it, right? If so, well done! Certainly didn't seem like a 5-minute job. All I saw were barriers to entry and curb your enthusiasm, but that's me. better get a new passport in case of being accepted :-) Yes (to John), we do need them again since nine-eleven and all that. Cheers and good luck! ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] LCA2010
--- On Fri, 31/7/09, Hugh Barnes list@hughbris.com wrote: Yes (to John), we do need them again since nine-eleven and all that. You don't keep up then, they recently announced you'd only need a drivers license to go to and from NZ as NZ flights would be treated as domestic, I'm just not sure when it came/comes into effect though. http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/deal-opens-sky-to-cheap-nz-airfares-20090221-8e6r.html ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] LCA2010
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:58:29 +1000 Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Hugh Barnes wrote: Just thought I'd interrupt the twitter-like pace of this list lately [1] and mention this. As I keep reading in feeds [2], linux.conf.au 2010 is on in Wellington early next year. We've discussed before how cool it might be to put up a paper, tutorial or display there [3], if only we could get it together. Well, there are two days left. I'm writing this on the off-chance some motivated individual might have a spare few hours to put together something, anything, for this conference by Friday. (I would actually have liked to put together a proposal for a mini-conf on open data, but alas that deadline passed a few weeks back. ~:) 1. who would go? I assumed that wasn't particularly important just yet, but reading around a little, it seems acceptance is a lot about the speaker. 2. who is prepared to speak? 2a. 45 mins is fair bit of time to talk through _ I would have managed about 20 mins last time I presented on OSM I don't think there would be any problem with a 45 min or longer demo. I'd listen to it. 3. can people get together on this list and put together a proposal in the next 18 hours? I doubt it. I hoped someone might have some time on their hands. I think all my best thoughts when I don't have an email client handy, like riding home, not at 2300 :~) I now think the best approach, if there is such a heroic time-rich person, might be to draft it up on the OSM wiki and give the list a pointer. As best I can tell, making a successful submission is not particularly trivial. It's also occurred to me that if all of this fails, maybe a mapping party should be organised to coincide with LCA. That's probably something for the outer eastern islanders. If none of that makes sense, I understand but I can't help you :~) Cheers ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] LCA2010
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I had a very early morning check on the website and tried to make a login, then decided that the requirements for application at 0400 were beyond me. I'd have to be able to nut out stuff about the API, which isn't my interest (or ability). Calls for papers did open one month earlier, but we aren't on the mailing list so we missed it until the extended deadline. ok, I've put my name down. it was a 5 minute effort so if they want us we'll be asked and if they needed convincing we will have to try again. better get a new passport in case of being accepted :-) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] LCA2010
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: better get a new passport in case of being accepted :-) Hasn't the passport requirement been dropped? I thought NZ flights were going to be treated like domestic now. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] LCA2010
--- On Thu, 30/7/09, Hugh Barnes list@hughbris.com wrote: I doubt it. I hoped someone might have some time on their hands. Have a look at the slides from SoTM09... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2009 ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] LCA2010
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:53:47 +1000 James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: On 29/07/2009, at 10:43 PM, Hugh Barnes wrote: I think OSM's profile in the FOSS community is a little dim. There have been quite a few posts on planet.gnome.org in the last couple of months about integrating maps (mostly OSM via libchamplain) into Gnome applications. However we do need to get more people aware of it. Agreed. Sorry, I meant in Oz specifically. Would someone like to put some words together to go about addressing this? If you do, best to let the list know of your intent to do so. You might even get some helper elves. Urgh. Something I mentioned the other year, although way too late to do anything about, was that we should really get LCA to use OpenStreetMap for it's mapping needs. As well as any official maps, there are often Google Maps-based things with all the good coffee shops, pubs and eateries in the area marked. It may need some work by people in the area (I haven't checked yet), but it would be good if the area surrounding the conference was well mapped out by January. Yeah, earlier in that same thread I think. Good plan. Hopefully the NZ LINZ data import will have been done by then. Of course, I'm expecting much more can be mapped than whatever's in that dataset. It's the detail that makes OSM maps stand out IMO. Another possibility is that it could be an official LCA task to do some micro-mapping. Brain dumping. Cheers ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
