FOSS4G'13: Following up from F2F on 6/9

Following up from F2F on 6/9

Posted by Steven Feldman on September 7, 2012

I came away buzzing with excitement from our F2F and also feeling much less overwhelmed by the scale of the task we have taken on. I'm reminded of some advice on how to eat an elephant (with apologies to the vegetarians amongst our team) Q: "How do you eat an elephant?" A: "Cut it into small pieces and invite your friends along to help"

In no particular order:

Thanks to Suchith for organising the facilities and Jeremy (NGS) for funding lunch
Thanks to Addy and Antony for taking minutes - please get them out as soon as you can conflate them
Thanks to Mike and Antony for offering to keep the budget in order and on track
Thanks to Jeremy for offering to organise/coordinate our volunteers
Thanks to Mark for liaising with Nottingham Conferences on internet - I think this will be a regular topic in our monthly calls (but must be brief!)
Thanks to Barry for offering to keep all of the OSGeo mail lists updated with regular news
Thanks to Claire for managing all the stuff with Nottingham Conferences and contracts
Welcome to Barend joining our team - we should think about how we can reach out to all of the OSGeo Chapters but particularly our European friends
Thanks to Jo for gently nudging us back on track when we were forgetting our purpose and who we need to be our OSGeo conscience
Thanks to Rollo, Ian and Matt for reminding me that I didn't manage to stage a silence that nudged you into sticking your hands up for something which means you are next on my list (apols if I have forgotten what you volunteered for, Antony or Addy will remind me!)
Last one - thanks to everyone for making the effort to be at this meeting, particularly those of you who came up for the day.

I will get out a calendar invite for our monthly calls later today (another thanks to Antony for offering Sustain's Webex)

Cheers

Steven

Comments

Jo Cook on September 7, 2012:

Following on from this- if I could chase up the minutes from the meeting and the various sub-meetings that would be great. Ideally if they could be added as documents here, then I will just copy them into the osgeo wiki page to keep the traditionalists happy.

Thanks

Jo

Jo Cook on September 7, 2012:

Also (you can tell I'm trying to cover all my actions from the meeting today so I don't forget)- Barry are you going to send a note out on the discuss lists to let people know we had the meeting and that minutes will be up on the wiki shortly, or shall I?

Jo

Addy Pope on September 7, 2012:

I will sort out my notes from the morning which includes a list of actions. If Anthony forwards me his notes then i will add them in..... just got to catch up with the day job ;)

Barry Rowlingson on September 7, 2012:

I'm composing the first foss4g-osgeo-discuss bulletin and i was just about to ask where the minutes were going (website, basecamp, wiki) and now I know.

Rollo Home on September 7, 2012:

Steve - I thought I was pulling together the programme (and associated theme and topics) and text for call-for-papers.

Jeremy Morley on September 7, 2012:

I thought so too, Rollo :-)

I don't think we checked at the time: will the academic CfP clearly relate to the general papers' CfP? It sounded like the Academic Track already had topic ideas?

Rollo Home on September 7, 2012:

I think it's best for the academic track to do what it needs to do in order to cater for that audience...a theme would simply get in the way. IMHO.

Steven Feldman on September 7, 2012:

Rollo

Of course you are leading the programme working group activity. The volunteerings that I mentioned were additional things that people signed up for. My final comment was slightly tongue in cheek, I am sure the programme strand will keep you very busy and I could add to that your role as social media guru :D

Mark Iliffe on September 7, 2012:

We don't have explicit topic ideas, it's more around the criteria we're looking for in the papers - high academic rigour etc. We've also making it clear that we welcome high quality submissions from early stage researchers.

Jeremy and I think it would be a good idea to start a whiteboard where we can sort out the criteria and themes of academic and mainstream papers here: https://basecamp.com/1920286/projects/762306-foss4g-13/documents/1202112-untitled

Rollo Home on September 7, 2012:

Steven - it's best that I don't over commit at this stage (Council, #w3g, SIG and the day job, oh, and some 'other' stuff......)