[FOSS4G-Oceania] Are any other cities considering bidding to hold FOSS4G-Oceania 2019?

[adam steer]

+1 from me... just hold it in september so I can justify a ski trip on the
same ticket :D

On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 21:48, Daniel Silk <dwsilk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Haere mai Ed!
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:30 PM Edoardo Neerhut <ed at mapillary.com> wrote:
>
>> +1 agree with all points. Kia ora Wellington!
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 15:45, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> +1 from me
>>>
>>> On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 10:54 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> +1 Cameron
>>>> On 16/11/18 8:52 pm, John Bryant wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> In a philosophical, but productive discussion at today's meeting, there
>>>> was clear support for the Wellington proposal. Obviously there is much work
>>>> to do to firm this up and determine many of the details around what this
>>>> would look like, but given that:
>>>>
>>>>    1. we have a very solid proposal on the table, from a proponent who
>>>>    is intimately familiar with what it has taken to create the event we're
>>>>    about to put on, and with substantial support already committed from
>>>>    individuals and organisations
>>>>    2. we have no other proposals (acknowledging that we don't have a
>>>>    robust process in place to solicit these, but I posit that at this point,
>>>>    if anyone was seriously interested in putting together a bid for 2019, they
>>>>    would have raised it by now)
>>>>    3. having the conference in NZ would reinforce our status as an
>>>>    international event, serving to establish a good basis for continuing to
>>>>    brand ourselves as 'Oceania'
>>>>    4. LINZ has been a supporter of this event from early on, and is
>>>>    historically a very strong adopter of open source geospatial
>>>>    5. as the national capital, we might expect a high local turnout
>>>>    from Wellington (Canberra/ACT is *by far* our highest per-capita
>>>>    source of attendees in 2018, at least 27 from a population of 420000)
>>>>    6. by making this decision now, we clear the way for making an
>>>>    announcement next week, when it will have the most impact
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to put forward a motion: *that we confirm our support for
>>>> Wellington as the destination for this event in 2019*.
>>>>
>>>> +1 from me. What say you?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 22:18, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm keen to have this discussion on Friday and move forward by email
>>>>> over the following few days before we kick off. I've put it on this
>>>>> Friday's agenda
>>>>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZmCKjEgYoR4cVYgdjDgEKt3DQV-NTJ52_h1ACeLHHCg/edit#>,
>>>>> and I'll make plans to include an announcement in the end-of-conf address,
>>>>> pending a committee decision.
>>>>>
>>>>
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