Open Geoscience and EGU activities

=Currently planning activities for EGU 2016= join our mailing list and stay tuned, volunteers are always welcome
 * a short course,
 * sessions and a Townhall event..

Overview: OSGeo-related short courses at EGU 2016
Introductory course to OSGeo-Live:

Ideas collected for the introductionary short course at EGU 2016

 * Introductory course to OSGeo-Live, duration 90 minutes, preferably during lunch break.
 * Material that could be presented include gsoc work of Massimo Di Stefano (aka 'epifanio'), a series of educational material based on OSGeo-Live, featuring the main software included in the distro.
 * epifanio made himself available to create ad-hoc material in collaboration with those who will be giving the course. In fact, at present the main issue remains that we don't have a lecturer.

Scope
(Source: EGU Page) ''"Townhall meetings are meetings open to all conference participants. At townhall meetings, new initiatives or decisions are announced to a larger audience, followed by an open discussion on the matter raised.

Anyone may organize such a townhall meeting subject to approval by the programme committee chair. Townhall meetings will take place Monday–Tuesday, 18–19 April 2016, and Thursday–Friday, 21–22 April 2016, 19:00–20:00, in the lecture rooms of the congress centre. Applications need the prior approval by the programme committee chair. Upon acceptance, the respective meeting will appear in the townhall meetings programme as a regular session."''

Timeline

 * Application at EGU: 205-12: Registration is open. Reservation based on first come / first served basis.
 * Funding request at OSGeo BOard: next board meeting (when ?)
 * Catering: not later than early March 2016
 * Event layoout / Speakers: "before the event" (preferably not last minute)
 * Interfaces: Synchronisation with session conveners, training course hosts, etc needed
 * Marketing activities (Poster/flyer production, invites, etc): before March 2016
 * Content for official EGU poster (to be produced by Copernicus (conference organizers)): to be announced.
 * Blog entries as requested by Board: tbd

Volunteers

 * Planning & Preparation-Team:
 * Peter Loewe
 * [your name here]

Next steps

 * update this page / outline of committee
 * [ACHIEVED] create mailing list (ticket)
 * [ACHIEVED] draft email request to send to the OSGeo Board to create a new committee (preferably before next Board meeting on 13 August)
 * Schedule a telco regarding EGU 2016 planning