FOSS4G 2016 Teams

Main topics where chairs/heds needed

• Chair of Scitentific Track
  • Franz-Josef Beer

• Chair of program committee
  • Volker Mische

• Workshop organization
  • Chair is Carmen Tawalika
  • Marco already offered his help and also Pirmin said, that he would like to help with the OSGeo-live DVD.

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

• Social-events-organizer (OPEN)
  • The 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 laso include some offerings of field trips for the saturday.

• Sponsorship & Exhibition
  • Chair: Hinrich Paulsen
  • 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 (OPEN)
  • 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.

• Family weekend
  • Peter Mooney (Fw) and
  • 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
  • Sven Hense, City of Bonn - requested
  • see http://2013.foss4g.org/geohack/challenges/index.html

• Code Sprint (OPEN)
  • We need an organizers of the code sprint. The group cares for room, snacks and acts as contact persons for this event.

• Techniue (OPEN)
  • 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