<div dir="ltr">Hi Alex, all<div><br></div><div>I strongly suggest that Deanna is invited to attend this event and listen in; and if she chooses to engage, then we can reassess how we engage next year. I don’t doubt that she has a wealth of experience and knowledge; and as CEO of SIBA she has an excellent platform from which to influence the spatial industry.</div><div><br></div><div>However - I also see a deep set of experience, knowledge and engagement on this committee; and in the people who have already signed up for the event. For every person we cherrypick/parachute in, we remove an opportunity for one of those established community members and drivers to stand in the spotlight.</div><div><br></div><div>I’d go as far as to argue that keynotes have the opportunity to have their say in their talks - and panels should selected from attendees. Perhaps keynotes could chair sessions? …and would anyone on this committee group say no to an invitation to sit on a panel and contribute to a discussion? Probably not...</div><div><br></div><div><div>Getting to be more like my $2.50 rather than $0.02… happy to hear other ideas.</div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 at 06:43, Alex Leith <<a href="mailto:alexgleith@gmail.com">alexgleith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi All<div><br></div><div>I agree around panelists, but this suggestion is specifically for the chair.</div><div><br></div><div>Panelists will likely be formed partly of keynotes, but some others too (for example, Cameron has said that he would be interested in being on a diversity panel).</div><div><br></div><div>Anyhow, seems that the consensus is that we shouldn't invite a panel chair, we should pick one from attendees. I do disagree with this, in this case. Here is an opportunity to bring someone along from the broader community, in this case, someone leading the spatial business community, and she will bring with her some diversity of opinion, and some deep insights. It is quite likely that she would register for the event, too, we just can't be sure about that!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 at 22:07 Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>We don’t offer one day, or one session registrations (with
the exception of workshops). We’re expecting general community
members to turn up, we should expect that people we shine the
spotlight on (as panelists, chairs, speakers, plenaries,
keynotes) to turn up as well. Otherwise it’s a crappy message.</div>
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<div>Are we afraid that we won’t fill a program? Are we worried
that there is not enough expertise in the community that
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<div>I’m not.</div>
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<div>…and +1 to Martin’s thoughts.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Good point. I agree this is 'for the community,
by the community' and we should aim in that direction.
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<div>But recall that we did have an email discussion about
non-attending speakers (<a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Conference-Presenters-and-their-Attendance-td5369372.html" target="_blank">email thread: <i>Conference
Presenters and their Attendance, </i>27 June</a>),
where this was suggested as a way to mitigate concerns
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are aiming for an engaging and participatory
conference, with minimal distinction between
presenters and attendees. While we really appreciate
all our presenters and would love to provide them with
a free ticket, we have opted instead to try and keep
registration prices low and are asking presenters to
purchase a registration. If that is not possible for a
presenter, they may attend free of charge for the
session they are presenting in, and the break
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<div>I very much agree that the ideal is to have speakers
attend, and for attendees to speak. But for those that
can't/won't, we've made this accommodation. I'm
supposing that this will apply to a very small number of
people, in any case.</div>
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<div>So the question at hand is - do we apply this
principle to a panel chair? Or do we aim for a higher
standard for this level of participation?</div>
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