FOSS4G 2016 Teams

Main topics where chairs/heads needed

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

• Program Committee
  • Chair: Volker Mische
  • Committee: Marco Minghini, Ela Wołoszyńska-Wiśniewska, Candan Eylül Kilsedar, Michael Gould, Johan Van de Wauw, Christian Wygoda, Gérald Fenoy, Guido Stein, Codrina Ilie, Nicolas Bozon, Christian Mayer, Stefan Herle, Monia Elisa Molinari

• Academic/scientific track (AT)
  • Chair: Franz-Josef Behr, A.P. Pradeepkumar
  • Committee: Maria Antonia Brovelli, Massimiliano Cannata, Serena Coetzee, Luciene S. Delazar, Nimalika Fernando, Ajit Govind, Ari Jolma, Barend Köbben, Dimitris Kotzinos, Jyothi Kumari, Peter Mooney, Antoni Pérez Navarro, Venkatesh Raghavan, Tuong-Thuy Vu, Francis Nyongesa Wegulo, Christian Willmes
  • Reviewers: We are just compiling the review board. Please contact Franz-Josef and Pradeep (academictrack at foss4g2016.org) if you would like to support as reviewer!

• 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
  • nn
  • 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 !!!