FOSS4G 2016 Teams

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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 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:


  • 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.



  • 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