William (and others), What I was thinking for the event was pretty much exactly like the BarCamp. Reserve the bottom floor of the Clocktower for most of the evening, have a few speakers in. I have talked to others in the OSGeo Ottawa chapter and they seem interested to attend. The suggestion was to have it as a part of the monthly OSGeo meetings (which are often held in a pub). This way, more OSM members and OSGeo members would be able to meet. There are other places as well that would work.
My main question is: how long and when? I estimate that approximately 30 people will show up for this (at least), but what are we looking at? Are we looking at an evening? Are we looking at a half day and an evening? Are we looking at a weekend? I think most people would be interested primarily in an evening session, perhaps two evenings. Sponsors? I might be able to work on that as well. Teresa 2009/8/10 William Lachance <[email protected]> > 2009/8/8 Sam Vekemans <[email protected]>: > > Thanks, > > Do you have other things todo while your there? > > > > What if i ask OSGeo (a registered non-profit) to host it, then i would > > be the main speaker for it? > > (since OSM Canada is not a registered organization) > > -we're just the 'coolest' talk list IMO :@) with only 1 person having > > the discussion. .... But at least i dont disagree with myself :) ... > > Just contradict myself sometimes. > > > > That way we can make it 'SOTM -Canada ~powered by OSGeo Ottawa chapter'? > > I'd definitely be interested in attending such an event and learning > from other people, time permitting of course. Thanks for organizing > this, face to face meetings are very valuable for building community. > > As a participant in more than a few of these things over the last few > years, I might humbly suggest that a formal sponsor isn't absolutely > necessary for an event like this. I'm not very familiar with Ottawa > anymore, but I'm sure there's any number of organizations or > businesses that would be happy to donate their space for an event like > this, either for the publicity or the business it would bring in. > That's basically all you need. Sponsors for t-shirts, food, etc. are a > nice bonus, but not strictly required. The barcamp Ottawa page might > give you some inspiration on where to start looking: > > http://barcamp.pbworks.com/OttawaCamps > > Cheers, > -- > William Lachance > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >
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