<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Paul<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your questions, here are our answers</div><div><br></div><div>1) With regards to the collocation of events:<br><br>Our proposal is very much to run these events back-to-back in a 6 day<br>period. However we envisage that there will be an overlap day for workshops<br>which will attract audience from both communities. Registration and branding<br>will be handled separately but we will cross-promote the events to their<br>separate communities to encourage overlapping participation. Registration<br>for the overlapping workshop day will be attributable for each participant<br>to one or other event (e.g. through each event's registration). Both<br>registration systems will offer the same dual registration discounts to<br>encourage audience cross-over.<br><br>We feel that the separate marketing will maintain the separate messages and<br>appeal of the two events. However FOSS-GIS is becoming an increasingly<br>important part of the UK GIS industry (from the promotion of open source in<br>government in the UK; through the adoption of an OSGeo-based stack by the<br>Ordnance Survey for its reference platform for UK INSPIRE services; to the<br>success of business such as Astun Technologies in providing and promoting<br>FOSS-GIS solutions). The GeoCommunity conference has for 5+ years been<br>interested in geoweb, "neogeo" and open source solutions and has engaged<br>with these communities from outside the traditional GIS industry. We are<br>confident that the possibility of attending FOSS4G will very much appeal to<br>sections of the GeoCommunity. In addition the cross-over should offer a<br>great opportunity for the OSGeo & broader FOSS4G community to demonstrate<br>its wares and successes to the UK's professional audience.<br><br>Finally, we hope that there will be a further audience boost in attracting a<br>further audience who may have considered one or other conference in the past<br>but for whom the collocation makes a compelling case to attend both at a<br>great value point.<br><br><br>With regards to sponsors, we plan to offer separate single-event and<br>dual-event packages, similar to the attendance packages. We will take into<br>account in the cross-over day the opportunity for sponsors to change over<br>(we plan to give more detail of this in the main bid). We expect definite<br>interest in the combined package.<br><br>Overall, we see the inclusion of the AGI in the bid team as an entirely<br>positive thing within the structure above. The AGI bring strong history not<br>just in organising conferences and other events, but particularly also in<br>the GIS sector. In the UK they act neutrally as an association and have a<br>good reputation here for championing the industry in all its guises. Sharing<br>event organisation between the two events with the AGI has clear cost<br>savings (e.g. in reducing interactions between organisations) while the<br>events can still be clearly separated, financially and for marketting.<br><br><br>2) With regards to venue capacities and projected number of attendees:<br><br>Our target number of attendees is 900-1000.<br><br>For space, the letter has focussed on our hub venue, the EMCC. However the<br>EMCC is based on the University of Nottingham's University Park campus (a<br>beautiful campus set amongst rolling gardens). For plenaries we will be able<br>to use the university's Sports Hall (directly across the road). This is used<br>by the university for graduations (and so can be dressed for events) and has<br>a capacity of 1400 people.<br><br>We plan to give further details of the venues for speaker sessions and<br>workshops in the main bid but can give details of capacities in this phase<br>if appropriate. As an indication, within ~10 minutes of the EMCC (including<br>the EMCC itself but excluding the Sports Hall) we have speaker venues of<br>capacities from 80-800 people.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I hope that answers your questions. If you want any further info from the UK team please do not hesitate to ask.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Steven</div><div><div>
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<br><div><div>On 2 Apr 2012, at 17:21, Paul Ramsey wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>UK team,<br><br>Two questions stand out for me in reading your bid:<br><br>- First, when you say you will "co-locate" with AAG and there will be<br>"6 days" of event, can you clarify your plans? Are the events to be<br>serially co-located (first A, then B) or run in parallel over 6 days?<br>Will there be joint registration and/or sponsorship for the events? If<br>so, how will revenue be split?<br><br>- Second, in looking over your conference venue, it seems that the<br>maximum event size would be around 500 (the capacity of the conference<br>theatre or banqueting suite). What do you consider your maximum<br>attendance, and how will you achieve that? (For reference, Barcelona<br>attracted over 800 attendees and Denver over 900).<br><br>Yours,<br><br>Paul<br>_______________________________________________<br>Conference_dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>