Hi all,
For those interested in being involved in a FOSS4G-ANZ conference for
2018, I've set up a Doodle pole for a kickoff meeting next week.
Please let us know when you are available.
https://doodle.com/poll/s3vdegqcqrdbxq4w
Meeting location: irc://freenode.net#osgeo
Primary email list: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz
Agenda (extending John Bryan's agenda):
-form a committee & determine 'rules of engagement' (how do we work
together as a group?)
-broadly scope the event, determine key details (what is it? when is it?)
* How many days?
* Venue type?
* Target size?
* Target cost?
* Program?
* What location? (how we select it)
-select communication forum(s): email list, wiki, meeting times
-nominate and save the date
-plot out a schedule for the planning process
-identify, and begin engaging with, key stakeholders
* Potential bodies to manage finances: SSSI, OSGeo, OSM State of the
Map, other
* Potential champions: LINZ, GA, CSIRO,
-begin spreading the word!
Agenda (extending John Bryan's agenda):
-form a committee & determine 'rules of engagement'
-broadly scope the event
* How many days?
* Venue type?
* Target size?
* Target cost?
* Program?
* What location?
-select communication forum(s): email list, wiki, meeting times
-nominate and save the date
-plot out a schedule for the planning process
-identify, and begin engaging with, key stakeholders
Re setting up FOSS4G conferences, the OSGeo Conference Committee has
been building up a cookbook over the years. It is not complete, but is
a starting point:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook
Cheers, Cameron
On 22/11/17 9:19 pm, John Bryant wrote:
Hi all, I can see the below message on the online version of the
thread, but it didn't come through to my email. I see it was posted
early this morning, but I couldn't see it online until this evening.
In case I'm not the only one who didn't get it, I'll paste it here:
Apologies for the cross posting, but I figured it was worth
making sure a few key people/groups are aware of this discussion.
I second Daniel's comments.
As an intro, I work at NIWA and have been active in the NZ FOSS
GIS community for some years (QGIS, Postgis, Geonetwork, GMT,
GDAL, etc...), and a semi-regular at FOSS4G when I can.
There are a few events that this could link in with, and a few
local SIGs & forums that may also be interested, but if
TechnologyOne are interested in linking this to their QGIS
workshops, I think that would be an ideal start, possibly even in
both countries??
Some other NZ groups/events we could perhaps work with:
NZ Spatial Excellence awards
Horizons Regional GIS forum
NZOSA
ALGIM
NZ Emerging Spatial Professionals
...
My time & availability is limited, but very happy to help where I
can to progress this.
Brent Wood
On 21 November 2017 at 22:50, Alex Leith <alexgle...@gmail.com
<mailto:alexgle...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Daniel and others
I think that sounds like a good plan, alternating between NZ and AU.
Responding to Jeff, it's fantastic to know that OSGeo is
supportive. And my earlier comments around 'organisation' really
are around how we can have an account and seed funding to start
from. I think doing that through an existing organisation sounds
way better than creating an entity.
Regarding John's steps, I think this is just about right.
Somewhere in there needs to be the organising of a relationship
with a body that can handle the money, though. Once we've got a
bit of a prospectus, I can talk to SSSI, potentially. Are there
other organisations may be interested?
And again, I agree with John, so let's try to arrange some kind
of video meeting soon. I suggest the week after next, so 5 or 6
of Dec.
Regards,
Alex
On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 at 22:18 dwsilk <ds...@linz.govt.nz
<mailto:ds...@linz.govt.nz>> wrote:
Hi all
For those that don't know me, I work at Land Information New
Zealand and
attended the QGIS Au meetup on Friday.
On 21 November 2017 at 23:21, John Bryant <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> I see the first steps, roughly, as:
>
> -form a committee & determine 'rules of engagement' (how do
we work
> together as a group?)
..and as an extension of this, how do we work together as two
countries?
One idea that I raised with John when we discussed this was:
- sharing membership of an organising committee between Au/NZ
- alternating FOSS4G events between the two countries each year
- heavy lifting is taken on by the committee members from the
host country
As a bit of background, TechnologyOne has organised a QGIS
user conference
in New Zealand for the last few years. That conference
already consisted of
2 or 3 days of workshops + two days of conference (one day on
QGIS, one day
on Intramaps) and I'm guessing attracts around 100 attendees.
There is certainly interest here in expanding this to a
FOSS4G event and I'm
keen to continue to be part of the discussion and work toward
making that
happen.
On 21 November 2017 at 01:49, Jeff McKenna <[hidden email]>
wrote:
>
> - I think the future model of FOSS4G events can be seen in
the recent
> FOSS4G-SotM-AR http://www.foss4g-ar.org/ (Argentina).
That event looks great Jeff, and the additional guidance will
be valuable.
Cheers
Daniel
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