<div dir="ltr"><br><div>These things are always balancing acts - maybe its worth polling around what people want to get out of things. </div><div><br></div><div>As a user or service provider or developer - i want to see trends - who is using what and where the action is.</div><div>As a developer i want to highlight what and why and hopefully find users and stop other re-inventing a wheel and becoming contributors</div><div>As a user I want to know how people are using tools and who might be available to provide support for particular aspects</div><div>As a service provider i want warts-and-all experiences of deployment with real lessons being shared</div><div><br></div><div>Having to choose between 10 long workshops run once, or 5 short workshops run for 20% of the time and repeated - the latter - people can always organise in depth training sessions, but FOSS4G should be about visibility into the broader community. Employers might want to send to a detailed course in a specific tech - so longer workshops before and after - bit not organised by committee (but maybe with bundled entry to FOSS4G )?</div><div><br></div><div>2c...</div><div><br></div><div>Rob</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 at 08:40 Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">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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<p>My thoughts on the first regional FOSS4G conference (in a long
while) is that the primary goal is to make sure it is successful.
With FOSS4G 2009 we over-estimated the number of attendees by
close to a factor of 2. There were multiple reasons for this [1],
but a key lesson was to make sure the conference goals are
achievable and sustainable.</p>
<p>As such, I'd err on selecting shorter, lower cost, lower barrier
to entry (which results in being more selective of presentations
and providing less higher quality presentations rather than more).
I'd prefer to be sold out rather than having a conference full of
empty seats.</p>
<p>Lets see how many people we can attract into the conference in
the first year before over-committing. We can build up numbers in
following years.</p>
<p>Cheers, Cameron<br>
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<div class="m_4206264761231070947moz-cite-prefix">On 13/12/17 8:24 am, John Bryant wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi all,
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<div>At our upcoming committee meeting, we'll hopefully come to
some kind of decision on:</div>
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<ul>
<li>conference length (for the 'conference' component,
exclusive of pre-conf workshops and post-conf code
sprint/hackathon/mapathon)</li>
<li>conference dates</li>
</ul>
<div>Discussion around length, so far, has focused on 2
options, either one day or two (for a total event length of
either 3 or 4 days).</div>
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<div>My personal preference would be to see two days for the
conference proper, as I think with both FOSS4G and SOTM
components, and a broad region (Oceania), there is the
potential for a lot of content... I think one day wouldn't be
enough time to cover it without spreading across too many
competing streams/sessions.</div>
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<div>One argument for one day is that it would be less of an
organisational burden, which is a fair point.</div>
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<div>Surely there are other arguments for one or the other
option, or perhaps even additional options that haven't come
up... it would be great to have some input on this mailing
list before we meet next week to make a decision.</div>
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<div>Thoughts?</div>
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