FOSS4G Handbook

This Cookbook should be taken as a guide rather than a rulebook. It aims to provide guidance to future FOSS4G and FOSS4G related events, based upon the collective wisdom gained during prior events. As such, it is a continuous work in progress, and we encourage all FOSS4G organisors to contribute to and enhance this cookbook.

Editing this document

This FOSS4G Cookbook aims to be concise, so that it is easy to read and follow. We also aim to collaboratively edit and continuously build this document based upon our collective experience running conferences. As such, we will need to continuously update and delete old text as new ideas come to hand.

The process to follow in updating this wiki is:

• Feel free to make trivial tweaks to grammar and syntax.
• If you would like to introduce a new idea, maybe add a new section, or improve an old section:
  • Raise your suggestion on the OSGeo Conference email list.
  • Once a rough consensus has been reached on the list, you may then update the Cookbook with the collective wisdom of the list.
  • After updating your text, notify the list again to give others the opportunity to review and tweak.

Venue Selection

• Refer to RFP for guidelines

Exhibition

• Event should provide an OSGeo booth
• Event should include OSGeo Advocate speaker who would present on an aspect of OSGeo
• The OSGeo advocate(s) are expected to coordinate and man the OSGeo booth
• The OSGeo Local Chapters are strongly encouraged to hang out at the OSGeo booth

See Also

• FOSS4G 2012 Lessons Learned
• FOSS4G 2011 Lessons Learned
• FOSS4G 2010 Lessons Learned
• FOSS4G 2009 Lessons Learned
• FOSS4G2008 Lessons Learned
• FOSS4G2007 Lessons Learned
• German FOSSGIS Handbook in German, and an English translation
• FOSS4G Request for Proposal (RFP) documents: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/