LOC conference call Jan 12, 2011 - Revision history

Wiki-Leo at 11:04, 25 February 2015

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Wiki-Pmbatty: /* Agenda */

2011-01-12T20:06:30Z

Agenda

Wiki-Pmbatty: /* SotM coordination */

2011-01-12T20:04:03Z

SotM coordination

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SotM coordination

Wiki-Pmbatty: /* Future Meetings */

2011-01-12T19:51:53Z

Future Meetings

Wiki-Pmbatty: /* Marketing (Matt Ball) */

2011-01-12T19:50:45Z

Marketing (Matt Ball)

Wiki-Pmbatty: /* Social Events (Peter / other volunteers?) */

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Social Events (Peter / other volunteers?)

Wiki-Pmbatty: /* Registration / Pricing (Tyler Mitchell) */

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Registration / Pricing (Tyler Mitchell)

Wiki-Pmbatty: /* Program (James Fee) */

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Program (James Fee)

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Program (James Fee)

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 '''Attendees:
-* Ben Tuttle
+* ''' Ben Tuttle
-* James Fee
+* ''' James Fee
-* Tyler Mitchell
+* ''' Tyler Mitchell
-* Tyler Erickson
+* ''' Tyler Erickson
-* Dana Wood
+* ''' Dana Wood
-* James Sakamoto
+* ''' James Sakamoto
-* Libby Hanna
+* ''' Libby Hanna
-* Jeff McKenna'''
+* ''' Jeff McKenna

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 '''Ideas we are currently considering:
 * ''' Having a closing SotM/opening FOSS4G social on Sunday evening: Mappy Hour!
-    *Mapping Party: Monday
+* ''' Have a mapping party on Monday - possibly organize a trip to the mountains and map / explore a national park? Possibly also just organize one or more recreational trips?
-        idea: go up to Mountains with mapping theme
+* ''' Have a common website (or source material) for “what to do in Denver”, logistics, etc
-    *common go-to website for “what to do in Denver” or posted on both websites (sotm and FOSS4G)
+* ''' Make it easy for people to submit abstracts to both SotM and FOSS4G (focused on the open data track for FOSS4G)
 == Future Meetings ==

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	* More info coming here shortly - I just had a good chat with Hurricane		* More info coming here shortly - I just had a good chat with Hurricane
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		+	'''Ideas we are currently considering:
		+	* ''' Having a closing SotM/opening FOSS4G social on Sunday evening: Mappy Hour!
		+	*Mapping Party: Monday
		+	idea: go up to Mountains with mapping theme
		+	*common go-to website for “what to do in Denver” or posted on both websites (sotm and FOSS4G)
		+	*some sort of ticket deal b/w both conferences?
		+	*FOSS4G is looking to have a opendata track (related to OSM)
		+	Peter: idea: make it easy to submit abstracts to both conferences

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 * Discussion on future format (conference call versus IRC, etc) and frequency of calls (perhaps weekly in short term, maybe switch to every two weeks at some point if we feel that works better)
 * Possibility of monthly get-togethers for happy hour for the local crowd? We need to try out the Yard House, the new bar connected to the Sheraton
 [[Category:FOSS4G2011]]
 [[Category:FOSS4G]]

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 * One option for graphical design is that we can contract further work with the person who produced the winning logo
 * Work on media sponsors
 == Website (Who owns ??) ==

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 * Wednesday night – reception at Sheraton on and around exhibit floor. Need to work out logistics as number of attendees much larger than will fit in exhibit space.
 * Thursday – “Signature Event”, priced separately. Probably at cool venue like the Art Museum or similar. Propose stand-up versus seated event, lower cost and better for networking. Initial budget had this priced at $99, seems high to me (though not out of line with previous years). Suggest $75 target?
 == Marketing (Matt Ball) ==

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 * Is the timing shown on the timeline right ... really should have at least the provisional program available a little way ahead of early registration deadline
 * Need to establish policies for any discounted registration categories (students??), policy for comp registrations, etc (not today but reasonably soon)
 == Social Events (Peter / other volunteers?) ==

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 '''There was general agreement that we should include a request for 5 minute presentations in the call for papers. While there are still lingering concerns over people gaming the system, we agreed we would use the community voting system run by Paul as in previous years, and we will use the committee's discretion to decide what proportion of papers come from the voting process and what proportion are selected by the committee. We do not plan to set hard guidelines in advance.
-Peter will '''
+'''Peter will draft a response to Adrian's email and submit this to the group.
 == Registration / Pricing (Tyler Mitchell) ==

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 <blockquote>Some questions below about whether you have settled on an explicit focus for your conference. It seems your choices during your organization work will invariably influence the nature of this conference as mainly either a gathering of free software hackers for fun and cooperation or as a platform for those of us vending our software projects. I wonder how much thinking and conscious decision making you have made on this issue. (''My high level answer: we aim to address needs of both groups'') </blockquote><blockquote>Will there be any limits on talks from the same organization, from the same vendor, or from members of the organizing and selection committees? In particular, how does this work in that sponsors at the $most_precious_metal sponsorship level are already guaranteed one slot? (''My suggestion, let's discuss: not hard pre-defined limits but we will review number of papers accepted per company before finalizing the program and may make adjustments if we feel it is appropriate''). </blockquote><blockquote>Does anyone know what the policy has been (if any) in previous years? Also, are talk proposals once again going to be submitted to a popularity vote? In my analysis, that resulted in getting many talks from the well known projects and well known personalities rather than getting a wide distribution of talks favouring the, possibly whacky, smaller projects. All are interesting, of course, but lead to a different flavour for the gathering so I am wondering what you are hoping to produce. (''Yes we plan to do a vote but intend for the final program to be a mix of papers selected by the vote and papers selected by the organizing committee''). </blockquote>
 *Keynote speakers ... are we planning to get any "external" keynote speakers (people outside those we would expect to submit abstracts)? If so need to start on getting those identified and signed up now. Examples might include well known figures from the broader open source world, maybe some to address the "open data" theme. Steve Coast would be one candidate there. I might be able to get John Hickenlooper, the Colorado Governor, to do a short welcome address - he is a good speaker and has some geo background. On the open data theme, Tim Berners Lee might be a good if ambitious choice to pursue ... he has been widely credited with pressuring get the UK government to open up its data, including geospatial data. He's known to be a fan of OpenStreetMap too.
 == Registration / Pricing (Tyler Mitchell) ==