FOSS4G 2016 Teams

Main topics where chairs/heds needed

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

• Chair of program committee
  • Volker Mische

• Chair of scientific track
  • Franz-Josef Beer

• Workshop organization
  • Carmen Tawalika
  • Danilo Bretschneider
  • Technical stuff / software: 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
  • 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
  • To be developed: foss4g_2016_style_guide
  • Knowledge from previous FOSS4Gs:
    • 2014 Promotional material meeting FOSS4G_2014_20131202
    • 2013 target, concept, communications: FOSS4G2013_Reflections_by_the_LOC
    • FOSS4G Handbook FOSS4G_Cookbook

• Family weekend
  • Peter Mooney
  • An idea brought in by the irish proposal was to make a family weekend before the conference. Peter, the chair of the Dublin team offered his help here, but he definetely needs a helping local hand here.

• Pre-Conference GeoHack (OPEN/REQUESTED)
  • Sven Hense, City of Bonn (requested)
  • see http://2013.foss4g.org/geohack/challenges/index.html

• 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.

• Technical Infrastructure
  • Oliver (?)
  • 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

• 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