Ireland/MeetingMinutes 6

Title: OSGeo-IE meeting

Date: 27.01.2017 16h00 (60 minutes)

Location: Teleconf.

Minutes Compiled: Seth Girvin

Attendees: Hrishikesh Ballal, Seth Girvin, Richard McDonnell, Daniel McInerney

Minutes:


 * Plans for 2017 symposium


 * Limerick chosen as location. Vote via Doodle poll [1]
 * Daniel has been in contact with the Castletroy Park hotel.
 * Provisional costs:

* 1 large room 250 EUR * 2nd smaller room additional 155 EUR * Tea / coffee 2.75 EUR per person * Lunch 10 EUR per person * ~600 EUR to cover keynote speakers flight, accommodation and expenses - Markus Neteler [3]
 * With an aim to have 30 attendees the entire event would cost around 2,000 EUR
 * Aim to keep attndance cost to 50 EUR
 * Provisional date - Friday 26th of May


 * Possible attendees:

* 7/8 people from OPW (Office of Public Works) * Masters students from NUI Maynooth * Society of Chartered Surveyors - Earth Observation Group * 2/3 from Compass Informatics, Dublin office * 2/3 from seconded Compass Informatics staff in Environmental Protection Agency * Contact local authority GIS officers
 * Sponsorship

* Shortfall of ~500 EUR to make up (50 EUR * 30 people = 1,500 EUR) * Gold, Silver, Bronze approach? Sponsors can add logos to all literature surrounding the event?
 * Structure of the day:

* 10am start * 2 hours keynote talk, lightening talks (~5 mins max per presenter), and open discussion * Lunch * Afternoon - workshops most popular to run * GeoJSON (Hrishikesh) * How to contribute to an OSGeo project (Seth) * Building a first map with Leaflet (or OpenLayers)
 * Suggestions to be sent in for workshop ideas. Put these to a vote (to attendees?) to see what would be the


 * Actions

* Prepare a 1 page summary of the event. Also put on http://wiki.osgeo.org/ ? * check wifi / power sockets at hotel
 * Next meeting 10th of February (4pm Friday)

[1] http://doodle.com/poll/ufp7sb8wqi4kaiyv [2] http://www.castletroypark.ie/ [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Markus_Neteler