<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px">If the venue costs are pretty minimal, as intimated in the video conference, costs may not increase much for two days vs one, but we do need this confirmed.<br><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_12702"><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_12703" class="qtdSeparateBR"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13000">Do we want all sessions fully booked with presentations, or allow a late afternoon one for ad-hoc BoF type meetings?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13185">If we allow for Bof meetings, are these just arranged on the day or will we let people propose them in advance?<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_12975">Do we organise a dinner for the middle evening? <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_12998"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_12999">Yep, getting sessions sorted to avoid concurrent competing ones is tricky...</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13183"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13151">Are we looking for a committee accepting presentations proposals, or organising an "attendee vote", like some FOSS4G''s have done. I like the participatory approach - a very FOSS-like one :-) <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13152"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13230">Cheers<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13229"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13182">Brent Wood<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13153"><br></div></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_12900" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_12899" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_12898" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_12897" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_12902" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_12901" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> adam steer <adam.d.steer@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Philip Mallis <philip@philipmallis.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> OSGeo NZ/AU <aust-nz@lists.osgeo.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, December 18, 2017 12:38 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-SOTM-Oceania: conference length and dates<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_12919" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv8388696017"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13162"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13161" dir="ltr"><div class="yiv8388696017yqt9975751369" id="yiv8388696017yqtfd92908"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13160" class="yiv8388696017gmail_extra">Hi all</div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13209" class="yiv8388696017gmail_extra"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13164" class="yiv8388696017gmail_extra">noting Cameron’s experience, and reading this thread - I’m also leaning toward two ‘conference’ days - perhaps one day could be ‘SoTM’ focussed and the other day ‘FOSS4G’ focussed? although there will be plenty of cross-fertilisation. These could, of course, be run in parallel but (being selfish here) I really hate having to choose, and inevitably miss cool things in parallel sessions.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13165" class="yiv8388696017gmail_extra"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13167" class="yiv8388696017gmail_extra">Two days would require a minimum of 24 speakers (3 x 0.5hr slots for 4 sessions each day), which should be feasible.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13166" class="yiv8388696017gmail_extra"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13168" class="yiv8388696017gmail_extra">However, I haven’t done any homework on the budget impact of 2 days vs 1 day - how does that affect registration cost etc.<br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13169" class="yiv8388696017gmail_extra"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13216" class="yiv8388696017gmail_extra">Cheers</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13212" class="yiv8388696017gmail_extra"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13215" class="yiv8388696017gmail_extra">Adam</div><div class="yiv8388696017yqt9975751369" id="yiv8388696017yqtfd61776"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1513565656297_13213" class="yiv8388696017gmail_extra"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="yqt9975751369" id="yqtfd40415">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Aust-NZ mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org">Aust-NZ@lists.osgeo.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz</a></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>