[Talk-ca] Tentatively Accepted: State of the Map - Canada @ Thu Sep 24 – Sun Sep 27, 2009 (Across Canada Trails)

[Teresa Baldwin]

William (and others),

What I was thinking for the event was pretty much exactly like the BarCamp.
Reserve the bottom floor of the Clocktower for most of the evening, have a
few speakers in. I have talked to others in the OSGeo Ottawa chapter and
they seem interested to attend. The suggestion was to have it as a part of
the monthly OSGeo meetings (which are often held in a pub). This way, more
OSM members and OSGeo members would be able to meet.  There are other places
as well that would work.

My main question is: how long and when? I estimate that approximately 30
people will show up for this (at least), but what are we looking at? Are we
looking at an evening? Are we looking at a half day and an evening? Are we
looking at a weekend? I think most people would be interested primarily in
an evening session, perhaps two evenings.

Sponsors? I might be able to work on that as well.

Teresa

2009/8/10 William Lachance <wrlach at gmail.com>

> 2009/8/8 Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>:
> > Thanks,
> > Do you have other things todo while your there?
> >
> > What if i ask OSGeo (a registered non-profit) to host it, then i would
> > be the main speaker for it?
> > (since OSM Canada is not a registered organization)
> > -we're just the 'coolest' talk list IMO :@) with only 1 person having
> > the discussion. .... But at least i dont disagree with myself :) ...
> > Just contradict myself sometimes.
> >
> > That way we can make it 'SOTM -Canada ~powered by OSGeo Ottawa chapter'?
>
> I'd definitely be interested in attending such an event and learning
> from other people, time permitting of course. Thanks for organizing
> this, face to face meetings are very valuable for building community.
>
> As a participant in more than a few of these things over the last few
> years, I might humbly suggest that a formal sponsor isn't absolutely
> necessary for an event like this. I'm not very familiar with Ottawa
> anymore, but I'm sure there's any number of organizations or
> businesses that would be happy to donate their space for an event like
> this, either for the publicity or the business it would bring in.
> That's basically all you need. Sponsors for t-shirts, food, etc. are a
> nice bonus, but not strictly required. The barcamp Ottawa page might
> give you some inspiration on where to start looking:
>
> http://barcamp.pbworks.com/OttawaCamps
>
> Cheers,
> --
> William Lachance
> wrlach at gmail.com
>
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