North America Regional - Revision history

Wiki-Tmueller: /* People */

2012-12-23T02:06:42Z

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Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Update 20 Feb 2012 */

2012-02-20T17:48:16Z

Update 20 Feb 2012

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Update 20 Feb 2012 */

2012-02-20T17:47:21Z

Update 20 Feb 2012

Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Mission */

2012-02-20T17:46:02Z

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Wiki-AndrewTurner: /* People */

2012-01-23T22:15:49Z

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Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Mailing List */

2011-12-10T22:10:20Z

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Wiki-Rolandhardt: /* People */

2011-12-05T17:39:09Z

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Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Mailing List */

2011-12-01T21:09:19Z

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Wiki-Mlucas17: /* Initial Thoughts */

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 * [[User:Rolandhardt|Roland W. Hardt]]
 * [[User:AndrewTurner|Andrew Turner]]
 == See Also ==

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 ==Update  20 Feb 2012==
-At the recent f2f OSGeo Board meeting (Seattle, Washington, 4,5 Feb 2012).  We discussed the best way to proceed with regional conferences.  The board officially recognized and supports the foss4g North American conference at the Washington Convention center April 10-12, 2012. http://www.foss4gna.org
+At the recent f2f OSGeo Board meeting (Seattle, Washington, 4,5 Feb 2012).  We discussed the best way to proceed with regional conferences.  The board officially recognized and supports the foss4g North American conference at the Washington Convention center April 10-12, 2012. http://foss4g-na.org/
 Furthermore, we have recognized that there is pent up demand for annual regional conferences in different regions of the world.  For annual regional conferences, the board will establish specific conference committees for each regional conference.  (note, local chapters are free to organize and plan independent events within their local areas).  The goal is to establish annual regional conferences managed by volunteers and leaders in those areas.  The regional conferences will contribute back to OSGeo giving us more resources to fund startup conferences in new regions, fund code sprints, etc.

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 ==Update  20 Feb 2012==
 At the recent f2f OSGeo Board meeting (Seattle, Washington, 4,5 Feb 2012).  We discussed the best way to proceed with regional conferences.  The board officially recognized and supports the foss4g North American conference at the Washington Convention center April 10-12, 2012. http://www.foss4gna.org
-Furthermore, we have recognized that there is pent up demand for annual regional conferences in different regions of the world.  For annual regional conferences, the board will establish specific conference committees for each regional conference.  (note, local chapters are free to organize and plan independent events within their local areas).  The goal is to establish annual regional conferences managed by volunteers and leaders in those areas.  The regional conferences can contributed back to OSGeo giving us more resources to fund startup conferences in new regions, fund code sprints, etc.
+Furthermore, we have recognized that there is pent up demand for annual regional conferences in different regions of the world.  For annual regional conferences, the board will establish specific conference committees for each regional conference.  (note, local chapters are free to organize and plan independent events within their local areas).  The goal is to establish annual regional conferences managed by volunteers and leaders in those areas.  The regional conferences will contribute back to OSGeo giving us more resources to fund startup conferences in new regions, fund code sprints, etc.
 These recent decisions have addressed the motives for setting up a North American regional chapter - primarily, organizing and running an annual conference.

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	''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional \| Talk page]].''		''For a clear definition of the term North America please refer to the [[Talk:North_America_Regional \| Talk page]].''
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		+	==Update 20 Feb 2012==
		+	At the recent f2f OSGeo Board meeting (Seattle, Washington, 4,5 Feb 2012). We discussed the best way to proceed with regional conferences. The board officially recognized and supports the foss4g North American conference at the Washington Convention center April 10-12, 2012. http://www.foss4gna.org
		+	Furthermore, we have recognized that there is pent up demand for annual regional conferences in different regions of the world. For annual regional conferences, the board will establish specific conference committees for each regional conference. (note, local chapters are free to organize and plan independent events within their local areas). The goal is to establish annual regional conferences managed by volunteers and leaders in those areas. The regional conferences can contributed back to OSGeo giving us more resources to fund startup conferences in new regions, fund code sprints, etc.
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		+	These recent decisions have addressed the motives for setting up a North American regional chapter - primarily, organizing and running an annual conference.
		+	Paul Ramsey is the conference chair for the upcoming conference in April. The conference will fill up quickly so please sign up if you plan on attending.
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		+	We'll leave the NA chapter information in place for a while in case anyone has any comments or wants to have further discussions. Please contact me directly or on the mailing list if you have any questions or comments. -- Mark Lucas

	== Mission ==		== Mission ==

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 * Brian Hamlin
 * [[User:Rolandhardt|Roland W. Hardt]]
 == See Also ==

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 http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/northamerica
-Subscribers as of 1 Dec 2011
+Subscribers as of 10 Dec 2011
 == Meetings and Events ==

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 ''I'd be inclined to be pretty cautious on forecasting for the May / June event, and plan on a larger one in 2013. I'm confident we could get probably 700+ for an event in 2013, but I'd be more inclined to budget around a base of 200-300 for May / June, and modest sponsorship (I'd bet on less than half what we got for FOSS4G, which was in the order of $100-120K). But with ability to accommodate up to maybe 500.
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 ''On sponsorship, it will be helpful to get an announcement out if possible by early December as many companies want to know before year end to get money in their marketing budgets. We offered a 10% discount for sponsors who signed up by end of January and that was successful in getting people to sign up early. We probably had 70-80% of our sponsorship money in by that early deadline. This is just one example where we really have to get going quickly to do something of even a medium size in May-June.
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