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<p class="MsoNormal">All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Not sure if these comments are helping all that much based on the focus so far, but . . . :c)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve pondered these type of questions in the past, and I think that for the community to be successful at this, that the local organization, OSGeo chapters, etc. need to be better supported for setting up a local event. There needs to
be a bit more formalization of OSGeo at the local level in order for the local hosting interest to materialize. There needs to be a centralized component of planning to all events, as well as a local component for fielding venues and reservations of event
aspects. I might even go so far as to say that an event should require, at a minimum, a local chapter(s) sponsor and involvement, even if it/they only exist temporarily during the event.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">By splitting the duties this way, the centralized side of the planning has better options for leveraging experiences from past events and passing that experience on to the local organizers and the local organizations get a better step up,
or quick start to planning an event. I n the near term, I can see this limiting options some, but it might also be thought of as a good way to start and stabilize local chapters of OSGeo over the long run.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Reply-To: </b>"eadam@co.lincoln.or.us" <eadam@co.lincoln.or.us><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 11:02 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" <conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [OSGeo-Conf] [OSGeo-Discuss] Poll: Change FOSS4G structure to have some continuity of organization and management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">It has been two weeks on this poll and we have heard from 7 of 19 voting members or 37%. 63% have not responded. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Till, Peter, David B, Maria B, Vasile, David F, Gavin, Claude, Venkatesh, Paul, Msilikale, and Mark have not responded (or I missed it). Do any of you have an opinion on this matter? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Some of the best ideas and contributions to the conference committee have come from non-voting members and that remains a possibility. In my mind Jeroen has provided valuable insight on conferences for ten years
or more. I greatly value that. The focus on voting members is to try to get responses and that the conference committee has had difficulty operating and is sometimes unwieldy. If the voting members are unable to operate (or even decide if they want to try
operating on something), then we don't have to waste time on it. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Best regards, Eli<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 1:25 PM Bruce Bannerman via Discuss <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Well said Sanghee.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">As a former member of the LOC for FOSS4G-2009 I agree with the local community development argument, though in our case it led to a lot of burn-out.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">There is also the practicality of finding a conference organiser that can operate effectively anywhere in the world.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Should the alternate approach go through, significant thought also needs to go into the procurement process to avoid the very real potential for corruption.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I prefer option 1. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">If this poll was asked just after FOSS4G Seoul 2015, I would have selected option 2 without any hesitations. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">However I now realize that I, LOC members, and local community had learned a lot by going through the difficulties of preparing the event altogether. That experience was very unique, invaluable and is now one of
driving force of vibrant activity of OSGeo Korean chapter. Community driven FOSS4G with help from PCO is not so bad model, I think. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">From: "michael terner" <<a href="mailto:ternergeo@gmail.com" target="_blank">ternergeo@gmail.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">To: "Steven Feldman" <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" target="_blank">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Cc: "OSGeo-Conf" <<a href="mailto:conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>>; "OSGeo Discussions" <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>>;
"Massimiliano Cannata" <<a href="mailto:massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch" target="_blank">massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch</a>>; "Eli Adam" <<a href="mailto:eadam@co.lincoln.or.us" target="_blank">eadam@co.lincoln.or.us</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Sent: 2022-02-06 <span style="font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">There's definitely room to <i>consider</i> continual improvements for the conference process, as the world, and our community has evolved considerably over the last few years.<span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Eli starting this thread with an "informal poll" makes complete sense. The Committee is simply doing it's job of helping the Board to manage
and promote the conference activity. We don't get to make decisions by ourselves, but generating ideas is certainly part of the mandate. And, as others have said, if the board disagrees with a proposal/idea, they do not have to approve it.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Everyone is welcome to participate in the conversation about changes to the organisation of FOSS4G, then the Conference Ctee should vote and make a recommendation (or recommendations) to the Board and the Board
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Thanks! I completely agree with those type of changes indeed. It makes sense we have a list of scenario’s forward and have a vote on that by the community. <br>
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For what the membership of the conference committee is concerned, I left simply because of the supposed/imposed barrier of not having been a conference chair, although I didn’t agree with that at all. Didn’t feel like fighting over it though. It would be better
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evaluation process, it's about deciding for example to have a fixed location, to completely leave it to an external company, to pay the committee members to do it, to have it online or in person, to cancel the global and keep only to local conference...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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and in no other committee there is such an entry barrier... If you didn't play in NBA you cannot be a good coach? Can a government self-elect his members? What about innovation, new ideas and other experiences, or we're just close in our FOSS4G past events
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Thanks for sharing your view on this. Although I sympathize with the idea of a whole community having a say in how conference locations is selected and organized, I’m not in favor of the process you propose. Reading LOI’s and full proposals takes a lot of time
and voting a lot of thought and discussion. It really helps to have previous conference organizers on the committee as well. At the same time I also think the committee should be open to other members (I used to be a member long time ago while I never chaired
a conference, and I don’t think that mattered honestly). <br>
Concluding, I think selecting a conference / proposal should be taken care of by the committee, not by all charter members or the whole community. Maybe the board or the charter members should decide for an elected committee similar to what we already do with
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">On 3 Feb 2022, 16:15 +0100, Massimiliano Cannata <<a href="mailto:massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch" target="_blank">massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch</a>>, wrote:<br>
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