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<p>John,</p>
<p>I think we should be open to someone from a Professional
Conference Organising (PCO) body being employed for this role.</p>
<p>We bring with us passion, and understanding of OSGeo principles.
They should bring experience in the logistics and legalities of
running a conference. If we find someone we trust, we can
potentially bring them with us to the next FOSS4G too.</p>
<p>I don't have any particular person in mind for this. SSSI might
have worked with a PCO before and be able to recommend someone.
I'm CCing Stephen Lead who I've noticed is well connected and
might have some ideas.</p>
<p>We might also want to reach out to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pco.asn.au/">http://pco.asn.au/</a> and see if
they can recommend someone. (We should be careful not to have to
trawl through 100s of applicants). <br>
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<div dir="ltr">OK team, let's wrap this one up.
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<div>I'm reading the comments in this thread as generally
supporting setting an upper limit at 250, with some valid
concerns raised around our ability to handle the crowd size.
With some further discussion on the topic at last week's
committee meeting, there was also general support.
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<div>Let's mitigate the HR risk as best we can, by making good
use of paid help in the lead up and during the conference
itself (this was also part of the meeting discussion).</div>
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<div>On that note, I've drafted a <a
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oXjrk-qc2Qmgc2F36EwSUhAcelARwG2Lf5KlAmtOEuQ/edit#"
moz-do-not-send="true">role description</a> for a Conference
Coordinator, and have circulated it to Melbourne-based
committee members and others, feel free to share. Comments
& suggestions on the role description welcome! It would be
good to get someone in place soon - if you know anyone in
Melbourne who would be good at this kind of work and is
available, get them to drop us a line at <a
href="mailto:admin@foss4g-oceania.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">admin@foss4g-oceania.org</a>.</div>
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<div>Cheers!</div>
<div>John</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 10:48, Sarah Goodwin <<a
href="mailto:sarah.goodwin@monash.edu"
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu., 27 Sep. 2018, 17:13 Edoardo
Neerhut, <<a href="mailto:ed@mapillary.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">ed@mapillary.com</a>>
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<div dir="ltr">Well in that case. Absolutely +1.
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<div>Maybe we can frame the announcement around "the
number of spots has been increased due to the
overwhelming response".</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 10:08, John
Bryant <<a href="mailto:johnwbryant@gmail.com"
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks Edoardo. Having spent a fair
bit of time walking around the venue and looking
at the rooms, and gradually gaining confidence
as we overcome uncertainty, my opinion is that
we can provide a comfortable environment for
250.</div>
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