FOSS4G 2016 Teams

Main topics where chairs/heads needed

 * Conference Chair, and Local Organizing Committee Chair
 * Till Adams


 * Chair of program committee
 * Volker Mische


 * Chair of scientific track
 * Franz-Josef Behr, Barend Köbben, A.P. Pradeepkumar


 * Workshop organization
 * Carmen Tawalika
 * Danilo Bretschneider
 * Technical stuff / software: Pirmin Kalberer, Anton Popov and Marco Lechner


 * Financial Issues
 * Torsten Brassat, who helped at earlier FOSSGIS conferences offered his time for this.


 * Social-events-organizer
 * Martin Arimont,
 * frame of the social events are set, but I think we need one or two heads caring for gala event and ice breaker especially.
 * This may also include some offerings of field trips for the saturday - requested from Bonn Tourismus GmbH.


 * Sponsorship & Exhibition &  * Organisation Pre-Business Day 23.8.2016
 * Hinrich Paulsen, Arnulf Christl
 * Sponsorship is a source where we can generate early income, so to start this process early is a major part. Also I guess, that most companies are planning their financial budget this year, so it is important to let them know about the possibilities of sponsoring FOSS4G.


 * Public Relations
 * Gert-Jan van der Weijden, Marc Vloemans, Codrina Ilie
 * I talked to Textkoch this FOSSGIS and he offered his help together with Monika Resch here (of course not for free :-. Public relations work may play a major role to get many people attending our conference. So for this issues we need a group of people and also ideas on how to structure this. Klaus Greve also said, that we might talk to the public realtions office of the university first.
 * Matthias Eilers takes care of the logo and the website design
 * main page: FOSS4G_2016_PR


 * Code Sprint
 * Astrid Emde, Uli Rothstein
 * We need an organizers of the code sprint. The group cares for room, snacks and acts as contact persons for this event.


 * Scheduler
 * Uli Rothstein, Till Adams


 * Graphics and Design
 * Anton Popov


 * Technical Infrastructure
 * Oliver Rudzick
 * There are competent people from WCCB, but we definetely need a group of persons taking care of the conference technique in general.


 * Co-operation with WCCB, caterer, PCO
 * Till Adams, Conrad Seyfert (MediaCompany - PCO)


 * Co-operation with UN offices in Bonn
 * Athina Trakas


 * Volunteer Chair
 * Katja Haferkorn
 * Coordinating volunteer work on-site and also for pre-conference preparing
 * strategy to gather as much volunteer helpers as possible


 * Homepage
 * Anja Litka, Carmen Tawalika (Content)
 * Küstenschmiede (contracted for technical support)
 * main page: FOSS4G_2016_Homepage


 * Awareness Crew
 * Volker Grescho (OLANIS GmbH)
 * Help all people at the conference but mainly solve problems between people in a fair way.
 * we need at least one more female head for the awareness crew !!!