EGU Townhall 2017 - Revision history

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* Preparation */

2018-09-17T11:11:13Z

Preparation

Neteler: /* Images */

2018-05-28T05:34:59Z

Images

Wiki-Peter.loewe at 11:58, 5 April 2018

2018-04-05T11:58:41Z

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* Lessons Learned */

2018-04-05T11:32:09Z

Lessons Learned

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* Townhall */

2017-05-14T14:48:24Z

Townhall

Wiki-Peter.loewe at 09:55, 14 May 2017

2017-05-14T09:55:16Z

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* Reception Topics */

2017-04-26T14:06:05Z

Reception Topics

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* Meeting with local OSGeo/OSM chapter and activists */

2017-04-24T07:23:48Z

Meeting with local OSGeo/OSM chapter and activists

Anitagraser: /* Meeting with local OSGeo/OSM chapter and activists */

2017-04-23T10:51:18Z

Meeting with local OSGeo/OSM chapter and activists

Wiki-Peter.loewe: /* Action items */

2017-04-22T08:13:08Z

Action items

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	* DONE: Plan and order Catering: 20170411: Caterer has provided a first quotation and received requests for small changes. Catering will be similar to previous years. Catering order placed by 20170413.		* DONE: Plan and order Catering: 20170411: Caterer has provided a first quotation and received requests for small changes. Catering will be similar to previous years. Catering order placed by 20170413.
	* DONE: Will we have a reception right before the TH ? YES. Timeslot has been blocked.		* DONE: Will we have a reception right before the TH ? YES. Timeslot has been blocked.
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		+	===== Presentation slides =====
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		+	[https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1419983 Presentation slides archived in Zenodo (citeable by DOI)]
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	=== Lessons Learned ===		=== Lessons Learned ===

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	* "Walking tour of OSgeo-Live"		* "Walking tour of OSgeo-Live"
	* Noteworthy: Only EGU 2017 short course on Jupyter: Was super-packed !Lessons learned: OSGEo-Townhall / Reception at EGU 2017.		* Noteworthy: Only EGU 2017 short course on Jupyter: Was super-packed !Lessons learned: OSGEo-Townhall / Reception at EGU 2017.
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		+	=== Images ===
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 * 28 attendees left their e-mail addresses.
 * Attendees by country: Germany (14), Austria (4), Australia (2), France (2), Norway (2), Italy (1), South Africa (1), Netherlands (1), UK (1)
-* Two talk: Intro by Peter, lightning talk by Edzer, discussion afterwards.
+* Presentations given: Intro by Peter, lightning talk by Edzer, discussion afterwards.
-                A few attendees came in _after_ other Townhalls finished (we were until 20:30 hours in the room)
+* Edzers improvised Wiki-based presentation worked great. No need to have specifically tailored presentations (less work, more flexibility), if such material is available
-* Most people came in during the first 15 minutes
+* Most people came in during the first 15 minutes.A few attendees came in _after_ other Townhalls finished (we were until 20:30 hours in the room)
 * Edzers improvised Wiki-based presentation worked great. No need to have specifically tailored presentations (less work, more flexibility), if such material is available
 * The information sheets about OSGeo came in handy. Only a few stickers (provided by FOSSGIS/Astrid Emde) were taken by the visitors.
 * The FOSS4G banners worked great. No need to bring specific stickers/ducttape to attach them to walls -> a liberal amount of the EGU-provided sticky tape works great.
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 * Copernicus-designed Poster: Worked, but was lacking a highly visible catchphrase. As next years poster will again be displayed by EGU on their official poster walls, use a catch phrasse and well known project logos ! (Something like a EU-Flag made of Logos ?)
 * A5 / A4 flyers didn't work so well as in past years. A5 flyers for personal invites still useful, as "gift artifact". Note: Make them really pretty !
-* Catering 2018: Plan aagin for 50 pax. Will be more than enough. Caterering personnel will tolerate extended presence unti 20:30 hours.
+* Townhall Catering 2018: Plan again for 50 pax. Will be more than enough. Caterering personnel will tolerate extended presence unti 20:30 hours.
 * Timing: "Drink the bar dry" at 30 or 45 minutes (latest) of the meeting -> people get talkative & stay.
 ==== Options for 2018 ====

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	* DONE: Will we have a reception right before the TH ? YES. Timeslot has been blocked.		* DONE: Will we have a reception right before the TH ? YES. Timeslot has been blocked.
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		+	=== Lessons Learned ===
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		+	==== Reception ====
		+	* The timeslot right before the Townhall is suboptimal. It prevents potentially interested scientists to attend: The poster sessions run until 19:00 hours so people are much more motivated to attend the poster sessions to talk science (main driver of EGU).
		+	* The OSGeo mailing lists have not worked well as advertising channels. Only two persons reacted to the call in the OSGeo mailing lists, of which only one did actually attend.
		+	* There were about six (6) attendees, which had learned about the event at the conference by word of mouth.
		+	* Instead of a Reception, a Splinter Meeting during lunch time could be attempted. In my mind, expenses and effort for this would only be justifiable IF (and only if) there would be significant positive feedback from within OSGeo ahead of the conference (and before the applicable deadlines). Lunch splinter meetings can come with catering (lunchbags), which would need funding from the OpenGeoScience Committe budget. To me this would only be justifiable if there is proven interest from the community at EGU
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		+	==== Townhall ====
		+	* Timeframe: 19:00 - 20:00 hours, Thursday
		+	* 28 attendees left their e-mail addresses.
		+	* Attendees by country: Germany (14), Austria (4), Australia (2), France (2), Norway (2), Italy (1), South Africa (1), Netherlands (1), UK (1)
		+	* Two talk: Intro by Peter, lightning talk by Edzer, discussion afterwards.
		+	A few attendees came in _after_ other Townhalls finished (we were until 20:30 hours in the room)
		+	* Most people came in during the first 15 minutes
		+	* Edzers improvised Wiki-based presentation worked great. No need to have specifically tailored presentations (less work, more flexibility), if such material is available
		+	* The information sheets about OSGeo came in handy. Only a few stickers (provided by FOSSGIS/Astrid Emde) were taken by the visitors.
		+	* The FOSS4G banners worked great. No need to bring specific stickers/ducttape to attach them to walls -> a liberal amount of the EGU-provided sticky tape works great.
		+	* A few attendees only came in because of the banner. (We were in the first floor of the main building. Rather prominent position. We were in the basement rooms during the last years.)
		+	* Observation: OSGeo is as the "umbrella" is still not widely known (instead of the OSGeo projects: QGIS, GRASS, etc -> remember this for future Townhall advertising !)
		+	* Copernicus-designed Poster: Worked, but was lacking a highly visible catchphrase. As next years poster will again be displayed by EGU on their official poster walls, use a catch phrasse and well known project logos ! (Something like a EU-Flag made of Logos ?)
		+	* A5 / A4 flyers didn't work so well as in past years. A5 flyers for personal invites still useful, as "gift artifact". Note: Make them really pretty !
		+	* Catering 2018: Plan aagin for 50 pax. Will be more than enough. Caterering personnel will tolerate extended presence unti 20:30 hours.
		+	* Timing: "Drink the bar dry" at 30 or 45 minutes (latest) of the meeting -> people get talkative & stay.
		+
		+	==== Options for 2018 ====
		+	* Use OSGeo Live for Short Courses, maybe use the Townhall to present the "winners" of the short courses.
		+	* Easy short courses on
		+	* Software Licencing ! (which one to pick)
		+	* github wrangling / software carpentry
		+	* What options exist for "non-coders" to be part of OSGeo
		+	* Geo4AllLabs -> What are they, how to apply, hot to be successful
		+	* "Open Source Philosophy" [the way of the modern coding scientist]
		+	* dirty tricks with gdal/ogr (commandline voodoo)
		+	* "Walking tour of OSgeo-Live"
		+	* Noteworthy: Only EGU 2017 short course on Jupyter: Was super-packed !Lessons learned: OSGEo-Townhall / Reception at EGU 2017.

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	* how to join our committee activities (hot topics: persistent identifiers, open monitoring systems, ...)		* how to join our committee activities (hot topics: persistent identifiers, open monitoring systems, ...)
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		+	* Opengeoscience Blog hosted at EGU ?
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		+	* Update on DOI / Video / Blogs

	* <your-topic-here>		* <your-topic-here>

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 ====== Meeting with local OSGeo/OSM chapter and activists ======
-* Date: Wednesday, April 26 (proposed)
+* Date: Wednesday, April 26
-* Time: tbd (19:00 hours ?)
+* Time: 19:00 hours
-* Venue: tbd (suggestion: http://www.nussgartl.at/?page_id=660)
+* Venue: Nussgartl (http://www.nussgartl.at/?page_id=660)
 * Attending:
 ** Peter Löwe

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 * OPEN: create list of all OSGeo related sessions & similar.
 * OPEN: Contact Press (-> Helli)
-* Open: Create working group within Open Geoscience Committee
+* OPEN: Create working group within Open Geoscience Committee
 * OPEN: Reach out to Scientists
 * OPEN: Organize giveaways (PL: IMHO can be skipped if necessary), Pre Easter Week: Astrid Emde of FOSSGIS has agreed to mail OSGeo flyers etc to Vienna (-> Peters Hotel)
-* Pending: Talk to EGU (PL -> Rasmussen (DONE: EMail 20170418); PL -> Gerrit Rooij)
+* DONE: Talk to EGU (PL -> Rasmussen (DONE: EMail 20170418)
 * PENDING: Contact local OSGeo activists (-> Anita Graser): 20170419: Pitch for meeting in Vienna on EGU-Wednesday sent out.
-* PENDING: Bring OSGeo banner: 20170412: Two banners (OSGeo Logo, OSGeo Seal) have been ordered at a Copyshop in Potsdam. Banners will be ready by 20170421.
+* DONE: 2ß170422: Two OSGeo banners are ready
-* PENDING: Invite EGU attendees with OSGeo-interest to Reception: Mailinng list posts 20170418 to OSGeo-Discuss, Geo4all, OSGeo-OpenGeoScienceCommittee + Doodle started)
+* PENDING: Invite EGU attendees with OSGeo-interest to Reception: Mailing list posts 20170418 to OSGeo-Discuss, Geo4all, OSGeo-OpenGeoScienceCommittee + Doodle started)
 * PENDING: Reach out to ESRI (DONE: Dawn Wright / Mike Gould), IODP, Google (-> GoogleEarth FOSS tool!), GPlates, Data Journalists, etc. 20170409: ESRI has been contacted via Dawn.
 * DONE: Before 2017-02-28: Create poster for TH-advertisement by Copernicus