Hi Tom,
Sorry, not yet. We're doing venue RFP's in a number of cities for
between mid-March & mid-April.
Naturally we're looking to avoid Easter & as best we can avoid march
break, which isn't easy.
Andrew
On 07/04/14 15:07, T M wrote:
Andrew
I know it is far away, but do you have possible dates for the
conference? I usually attend another conference at the end of April,
so I was just wondering if it will conflict
Thanks
Tom Mueller
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David,
Thank you. Our team is always glad to support the ecosystem.
Personally, I'm jazzed at the potential and looking forward to having
a lot of fun with this.
You're spot-on. We recognize the branding is a crucial bit of this.
It's not simple, but I think we should be able to figure out a way to
do it that works for everyone. For those that have ideas or want to
participate, please speak up ASAP.
Cheers!
Andrew
On 07/04/14 13:50, David William Bitner wrote:
Andrew,
First of all, thank you for stepping up as willing to take on FOSS4G
NA 2015.
Having made two calls to the broader community over the last several
months looking for folks to express interest in hosting the NA event
for 2015 with no response, I am excited to see someone with your
experience stepping forward. Unless this thread spurs on another bid,
at this point, I would not envision necessity for a competitive bid
for this event.
I think that co-hosting the event with Eclipse and LocationTech can
both help boost the profile and the make this event logistically
easier. I think the most critical piece in joining these events this
year will be in making sure that we can keep the FOSS4G and OSGeo
branding prominent.
Keep in mind as well (anyone else here too that might want to provide
a competing bid!), that we have earmarked ~$20K from the Minneapolis
event to help bootstrap a 2015 NA FOSS4G.
David
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Andrew Ross <andrew.r...@eclipse.org
<javascript:return>> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Please excuse the cross post between OSGeo's discuss &
conference_dev lists as well as LocationTech's discussion list.
I'm hoping to enable inclusive discussion about an idea.
Bit of background, this coming May (19-21), LocationTech Summit
is co-hosted with Location Intelligence in Washington D.C.
<http://www.locationintelligence.net/>. Travel restrictions for
Federal Government employees for instance meant holding this in
D.C. was important in 2014.
We have started planning for 2015, and I wanted to reach out and
see if an idea might be of interest to the greater community.
The idea is to co-host LocationTech Summit, FOSS4G North America,
and EclipseCon next year in the spring.
For those that haven't been:
* EclipseCon is a great developer conference & covers topics
that I feel may be a really nice complement such as Science,
Internet of Things, Automotive, Software development best
practice, and more. While there are some awesome talks in the
area, it's not just about the IDE. :-)
* FOSS4G NA is the regional sibling of FOSS4G Global, also a
great developer conference, and focused on geospatial
technologies. It is a must attend event if you're into web
mapping or looking for open source GIS solutions.
* LocationTech Summit is new (first one this May), similar to
FOSS4G however perhaps has a stronger focus on high
performance geoprocessing technologies and new technologies
like GeoGit for instance.
* My feeble attempt at contrast aside, I think these last two
will see a lot of the same speakers & audience.
A few thoughts:
* We believe a combined event could likely be done to
prioritize camaraderie which is so important for open source
projects & community. i.e. avoid anyone feeling lost in a
huge event.
* We feel the mutual outreach to people across communities
would be really useful, interesting, and spark wonderful
ideas we can't predict.
* The logistical work can be done by full time conference
organizers who organize EclipseCon each year. The program is
up to the communities to set.
* For those seeking suppliers, partners, & customers, this
should make for more opportunities.
* Profit sharing with significant participating groups is
doable. We're glad to help figure out a fair and amicable
solution.
* Ensuring each group are well served is a priority of course.
We think this combined event might attract people who might
not otherwise come to any of them. But we'll have to try and see.
Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? Is this a good idea? Interested?
Kind regards,
Andrew
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