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 useful stuff. Ideally work in
partnership with another legal body, like SSSI, or maybe one of the
sponsor partners, or OSGeo.
I'd err on aiming small which will mean you can keep the venue costs
down. (Ideally team up with a University or similar who provides cheap
rooms.)
Cheers, Cameron
On 20/11/17 11:22 am, David Dean wrote:
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.
If we can incorporate an OSM SOTM track, I would be happy to take
point on that, as well as any assistance need for the wider F4G-AUNZ
conference.
I've CC'd this to the OSM Australia Mailing List, so if anyone is
coming from there, the email thread is below.
(I've also sent this to the QGIS mailing list, but I'm not subscribed
yet, so I'm not sure if it will go through)
- David
On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 at 09:44 Adam Steer <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi all
Sign me up to help out as well - I’ve been ruminating over the
idea of how to re-inspire the AU-NZ community, after having been
to a couple of awesome F4G global conferences now.
Osgeo seems to be the natural ‘formal group’ - Cameron knows how
this might work and will no doubt let me know if I’m barking up
the wrong tree. would formalising an ANZ Osgeo chapter be a good
path? or fraught with hazard?
cheers
Adam
> On 20 Nov 2017, at 9:05 am, Alex Leith <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Hey folks
>
> As John said, I'm to get involved and help get something going
for next
> year, potentially.
>
> I think that the QGIS forum showed that there is interest
around, and doing
> a FOSS4G-ANZ would be a logical progression into an inclusive
event for a
> wider group of geo-folks.
>
> I think that we need to be aware of the big event in spatial,
Locate, which
> is on around April each year, and as such, an event would be
best held in
> the last half of the year. And what is unclear to me is what
formal bodies
> we could organise an event under, i.e., who can front up cash
for a venue
> and take the risk of an event that loses money (this should be
unlikely, but
> it's a risk). There is, of course, a lot of discussion around
scale, and
> format, but we can work all of that out in time.
>
> Anyhow, I'm very keen to help out. I've run some smaller
conferences through
> the SSSI in Tassie that have had 100+ attendees, and have
recently moved out
> of my SSSI volunteering roles and as such I'm ready for the next
thing!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Alex
>
>
>
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