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<br><div style=""><div>On 26 Aug 2014, at 14:50, Darrell Fuhriman <<a href="mailto:darrell@garnix.org">darrell@garnix.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">One of the things I’ve heard in the past is that some people are afraid that running a more professional conference will take away the grass roots / community feeling of FOSS4G. As I said, I myself have no issues with this, but it’s a common theme that comes up.<br></blockquote><br>Actually, I think it could be *more* grass roots if there were a dedicated staff to handle the day-to-day stuff. The LOC could focus on conference issues, without having to learn the ins-and-outs of running a conference.<br><br>There’s an enormous number of things that need to be done that have nothing at all to do with a grass roots/community feel, but that burn a huge amount of time, especially if you’ve never done it before.<br><br>There’s a big difference in time spent between:<br><br>A) Hi, LOC, here’s the signage you need. Make it fit your theme, it’s due on….<br><br>and<br><br>B) Hey, what signage do we need? Where does it go? What size should it be? Who’s printing it? Oh crap, we forgot about signs for X, shit someone throw something together…<br><br>Substitute a million little things for “signage” and repeat.<br><br>Darrell<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Conference_dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>