Steven's opening and welcome bit
Posted by Steven Feldman on August 30, 2013
I thought I might try crowd sourcing some ideas for my opening bit, with you lot being the crowd.
Basic structure:
I was going to hammer the Robin Hood motif and use some old video stills and posters as slide backgrounds.
I will pull together a slide template unless one of the creatives has already done that?
We will also need some rolling slide show to use before the conference and on the screens in the venue through the event, some of that could be filched from my presentation.
Do we want to give delegates the wifi logon at the beginning of the event or at the end of the plenary? I guess it needs to be at the beginning.
Are we going to use #FOSS4G or #FOSS4G2013 as our 'official' hashtag?
OK that's a quick brain dump, pile in with ideas
Basic structure:
- Welcome
- Open Source Geo on crest of wave in Europe - I could do with some facts and figures for a slide or 2 covering govt policy, INSPIRE, teaching etc. @Suchith @Barend @Jeremy @F-J ideas?
- Personal bit about Geo for All @Mark @Rollo @Jo @Matt ideas?
- Thanks to - OSGeo, Sponsors, LOC, LOC Employers, Volunteers, Ken Field, BCS and CASA/GLA for Map Gallery, Gary G for Unconference, delegates - have I missed anyone? I am going to need a mountain of logos, pictures and also lists of names (delegates and volunteers) for a couple of unreadable slides that include everyone in a sort of scrolling cinema cast
- Introduce Jeff McKenna
I was going to hammer the Robin Hood motif and use some old video stills and posters as slide backgrounds.
I will pull together a slide template unless one of the creatives has already done that?
We will also need some rolling slide show to use before the conference and on the screens in the venue through the event, some of that could be filched from my presentation.
Do we want to give delegates the wifi logon at the beginning of the event or at the end of the plenary? I guess it needs to be at the beginning.
Are we going to use #FOSS4G or #FOSS4G2013 as our 'official' hashtag?
OK that's a quick brain dump, pile in with ideas
Comments
Franz-Josef Behr on September 9, 2013:
You could mention the rapid growth of the ICA-OSGeo nodes network in Europe.
I can provide some kind of map (https://maps.google.de/maps/ms?msid=217919488281947849251.0004da7def3b647f010c4&msa=0, some updates needed)
Suchith Anand on September 9, 2013:
Steven, i will send you 2-3 overview slides of this. The main messege is that this initiative is transforming geospatial education in both developed and developing countries (there is a good overview article from Charlie and Helena in last month's GIM International). We now have 37 labs established across the planet and will have over 100 labs established by 2015. Our biggest growth is in the USA (6 labs established already and plans in place for establishing over 20 research labs in the biggest universities in US by 2015). In Europe also we have very strong growth with 14 labs established (4 in the UK alone at Universities of Southampton, Newcastle, Warwick and Nottingham). We will have over 50 labs established in European universities by 2015.
This rapid growth and interest has been beyond our wildest expectation. When we started on this initative our aim was to establish 5 labs in 5 years ! Thanks to OSGeo and ICA members for thier strong support for making this initiative a great success. We are working on a new website for the network and we will be using "Geo for All" as our motto.
Suchith
Steven Feldman on September 12, 2013:
@others - I could do with a few impressive statistics about Open Source Geo in Europe. Can anyone help? How many countries have implemented INSPIRE on OS? How many have an OS "preferred" policy? I would love impressive stats and beautiful maps.
Your chance for 15 seconds of glory
Jeremy Morley on September 12, 2013:
Remember, no Gary now to mention, unless just for being willing.
WiFi access: