FOSS4G 2016 Teams
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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 FOSS4G_2014_20131202
- FOSS4G2013_Reflections_by_the_LOC
- 2013 target, concept, communications: FOSS4G2013_Reflections_by_the_LOC
- 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