dear VisCom,
I keep hearing EuroOSCON rumblings on IRC. I'm wondering what's
happening with this - who else is planning to be there - what kind of
means and plans OSGeo's dedicated Visibility people have for improving
European Visibility - here's my notes and questions:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_at_EuroOSCON_2006
cheers,
jo
On Sun, August 13, 2006 22:01, Jo Walsh wrote:
dear VisCom,
I keep hearing EuroOSCON rumblings on IRC. I'm wondering what's
happening with this - who else is planning to be there - what kind of
means and plans OSGeo's dedicated Visibility people have for improving
European Visibility - here's my notes and questions:http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_at_EuroOSCON_2006
cheers,
jo
Not many Europeans around... and my self so far stored it under neglected.
I had hoped to hop on the Adsk train just as I did at Where 2.0 and I am
definitely not up to date. I hope that someone can shed some more light on
what has hopefully already been done.
If we have a booth we can produce printed material and deliver it. If any
content from the VisCom library needs to be worked over it should be done
well before FOSS4G anyway. But we have a good stack to start on. We can
also bring a banner and some notebooks.
What is Autodesk doing there? Any chance of joining in?
We will not have that many volunteers to staff a booth due to the high
entrance fees, preceding FOSS4G and upcoming Intergeo 2006.
Regards,
Arnulf.
What is ADSK doing? I have no clue. LisaL?
-----Original Message-----
From: Arnulf Christl [mailto:arnulf.christl@ccgis.de]
Sent: Sun 8/13/2006 3:05 PM
To: dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org
Cc: Gary Lang
Subject: Re: [VisCom] EuroOSCON planning?
On Sun, August 13, 2006 22:01, Jo Walsh wrote:
dear VisCom,
I keep hearing EuroOSCON rumblings on IRC. I’m wondering what’s
happening with this - who else is planning to be there - what kind of
means and plans OSGeo’s dedicated Visibility people have for improving
European Visibility - here’s my notes and questions:http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_at_EuroOSCON_2006
cheers,
jo
Not many Europeans around… and my self so far stored it under neglected.
I had hoped to hop on the Adsk train just as I did at Where 2.0 and I am
definitely not up to date. I hope that someone can shed some more light on
what has hopefully already been done.
If we have a booth we can produce printed material and deliver it. If any
content from the VisCom library needs to be worked over it should be done
well before FOSS4G anyway. But we have a good stack to start on. We can
also bring a banner and some notebooks.
What is Autodesk doing there? Any chance of joining in?
We will not have that many volunteers to staff a booth due to the high
entrance fees, preceding FOSS4G and upcoming Intergeo 2006.
Regards,
Arnulf.
Jo Walsh kirjoitti:
I'm just wondering/worrying about how the wiki develops. We have two
pages for events lists. I didn't find a link to this page on neither of
them, was that intentional?
I like the wiki very much but it seems that once something is written in
there, people (me included) are hesistant to change it. There are the
discuss pages, but they are not much used. An idea would be to have an
"editorial" discussion on the state of the wiki on this(?) email list.
Regards,
Ari
I guess our Viscom minutes haven't been clear enough for you guys 
EuroOSCON has been discussed briefly at our previous VisCom meetings and we have touched base with Autodesk organisers on this. But due to most of being swamped on OSCON and GeoWeb prep, it was deferred until we had time again - so it is planned for discussion at this Thursday's meeting. If you are interested/concerned please plan to be there. http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Tenth_VisCom_Meeting
For your background.. Lisa Landers is the lead on this from Autodesk's end though at least two other staff are also involved. The next step for VisCom is to have a volunteer contact to be 'on the ground' helping Autodesk organisers - I believe Arnulf has showed interested in the past. This method has worked well in the past few conferences as each of us takes on a conference and is the primary contact for Autodesk staff. Autodesk staff have also been excellent helpers by joining our meetings and giving us a task list. We take some items, they take some items (including liaison with O'Reilly).
So - who is going and can be a key contact for Autodesk? You would need to be able to help organise things such as: volunteer recruitment using free passes, booth planning and volunteeer roster, planning for BOF events, coordinating develop and printing of material, booth setup/placement, distributing handouts, finding speakers, coordinating speaker topics, registering volunteers, finding/organising media interview opportunities, booth volunteers? Anyone interested? Seriously though, between the several Autodesk staff and VisCom, theses are the kinds of tasks that are involved - fortunately Autodesk takes care of much of the hard work for us!
As an aside, it is becoming obvious (to me at least) that VisCom is going to become increasingly stretched between "Events", "Project propaganda", "Press Releases", etc. Helping with events could easily be VisCom's full time job since there are so many events happening.
Talk to you on Thursday morning
Tyler
On 13-Aug-06, at 3:05 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
On Sun, August 13, 2006 22:01, Jo Walsh wrote:
dear VisCom,
I keep hearing EuroOSCON rumblings on IRC. I'm wondering what's
happening with this - who else is planning to be there - what kind of
means and plans OSGeo's dedicated Visibility people have for improving
European Visibility - here's my notes and questions:Not many Europeans around... and my self so far stored it under neglected.
I had hoped to hop on the Adsk train just as I did at Where 2.0 and I am
definitely not up to date. I hope that someone can shed some more light on
what has hopefully already been done.If we have a booth we can produce printed material and deliver it. If any
content from the VisCom library needs to be worked over it should be done
well before FOSS4G anyway. But we have a good stack to start on. We can
also bring a banner and some notebooks.What is Autodesk doing there? Any chance of joining in?
We will not have that many volunteers to staff a booth due to the high
entrance fees, preceding FOSS4G and upcoming Intergeo 2006.
dear all,
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:27:04AM -0700, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
until we had time again - so it is planned for discussion at this
Thursday's meeting. If you are interested/concerned please plan to
be there. http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Tenth_VisCom_Meeting
Okay, this sounds great. Re. FOSS4G there's so much to discuss - kind
of keep thinking of it as 'our' conference and that it will be so
suffused with OSGeo that having one focal presence would be almost
superfluous... but best not to take this for granted 
Markus started http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_at_FOSS4G2006
I imagine there will be 2 dozen talks by OSGeo members there...
FWIW, Brady Forrest, the conference chair of Where2.0 is super
enthusiastic about FOSS4G, has been talking with Claude P about
ORA's sponsorship options and if it goes well there should be a very
good chance of ORA sponsorship for next years OSGeo conference(s).
I don't know if this is in VisCom's remit - how OSGeo gets the word
out to different local user groups about conf organising and what
support options are available - but i'm guessing most opinions are here.
I likely won't be able to make Thursday, but will be on a plane.
Re EuroOSCON, Mateusz Loskot wants to attend and i'd love for OSGeo to be
able to offer him a pass. strk from PostGIS / GEOS could be a *really* good
speaker and connection to other open source communities - cf
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Supporting_Spatial_Databases which i'd
love to move forward a bit but am not sure 'where next'.
cheers, good luck,
jo