<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">My hunch is that with 2 people you are looking at about <b class="">4-5 hours per week in the 2-3 months before the event</b> (less in the early stages). <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It isn’t consistent so a chunk of time goes into paper and workshop selection but you can delegate that to a team. Workshop organising takes a bit of time but again you can delegate that. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Things tend to go a bit crazy in the last 2 or 3 weeks and you should expect to commit more time then.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jo may have a more accurate recollection of the time she put into the 2016 event (which was a lot more than the time I put in)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I make whoever steps up a promise: all the time, hard work and worry of planning and running a FOSS4G will be repaid a hundred-fold by the glow of community appreciation and your sense of achievement once it is over.<br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 Aug 2017, at 12:26, Tom Chadwin <<a href="mailto:tom.chadwin@nnpa.org.uk" class="">tom.chadwin@nnpa.org.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Hi Stephen (and also Jo)</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Can you give us some idea of the work involved (nature and amount)? I think that would probably help one or more of us muster the courage to step up.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Thanks</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Tom</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></p><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1.5pt; border-left-color: blue; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt;" class=""><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class="">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>UK [<a href="mailto:uk-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">mailto:uk-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Steven Feldman<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>21 August 2017 12:20<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:uk@lists.osgeo.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">uk@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [OSGeo-UK] FOSS4G UK 2018?</span></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Anyone willing to put their hand up to chair a FOSS4G UK in 2018?</div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">IMHO, nothing will happen unless at least one “someone” (and ideally two “someones”) takes the lead. </div></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">It’s in your hands, we have a sponsor, we have a venue, we have volunteers to help, we need a chair (or 2)</div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">______</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><span class="apple-style-span">Steven</span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </p><div class=""><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">On 24 Jul 2017, at 16:59, Steven Feldman <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </p><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">So the list of volunteers so far is:</div><div class=""><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" class=""><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nick Bearman</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sam Franklin</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Simon Miles</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Steve Richardson</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Matt Travis</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tom Chadwin</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">AJ Swanpoel</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">James Milner (I believe he is still up for some involvement)</li></ul><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Nearly there, I suggest you need 1 or 2 more and most importantly you need a conference chair and vice chair (trust me you do). </div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">______</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><span class="apple-style-span">Steven</span><br class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>