<div dir="ltr">Hey Steven/List<div><br><div>Remind me again, has there been any discussion on do we think this is likely to be a 1-day event, a 2-day event, or as yet undecided?<div><br></div><div>I'm willing to bet that a 2-day is A LOT more work than a 1-day event. I'm sure Jo and Steven could comment on that?</div><div><br></div><div>I recall from one of the recent OSGeo AGMs that a more "light touch" approach to events was preferred by the community. Obviously, a shorter (1-day) event requires less commitment from volunteers and less time-out for delegates.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, personally, the 1-day RastersRevealed conference in March was a good format and worked well.</div><div><br></div><div>I guess I'm saying, that if it is a 1-day event, others / I might be more willing to it take on :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_714593427354117666gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">---<br><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Sam Franklin</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">m | <a href="tel:07866%20979870" value="+447866979870" target="_blank">+44 7866 979 870</a></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">t | <a href="https://twitter.com/SamRFranklin" target="_blank">@SamRFranklin</a></font></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 August 2017 at 12:50, Steven Feldman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" target="_blank">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">My hunch is that with 2 people you are looking at about <b>4-5 hours per week in the 2-3 months before the event</b> (less in the early stages). <div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 21 Aug 2017, at 12:26, Tom Chadwin <<a href="mailto:tom.chadwin@nnpa.org.uk" target="_blank">tom.chadwin@nnpa.org.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_714593427354117666gmail-m_2154052675120632775Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div class="m_714593427354117666gmail-m_2154052675120632775WordSection1" 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"><div 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)">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)"> </span></p><div 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)">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)"> </span></p><div 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)">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)"> </span></p><div 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)">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)"> </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)"> </span></p><div style="border-style:none none none solid;border-left-width:1.5pt;border-left-color:blue;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt"><div><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-width:1pt;border-top-color:rgb(181,196,223);padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="m_714593427354117666gmail-m_2154052675120632775Apple-converted-space"> </span>UK [<a href="mailto:uk-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">mailto:uk-bounces@lists.osgeo<wbr>.org</a>]<span class="m_714593427354117666gmail-m_2154052675120632775Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="m_714593427354117666gmail-m_2154052675120632775Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Steven Feldman<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="m_714593427354117666gmail-m_2154052675120632775Apple-converted-space"> </span>21 August 2017 12:20<br><b>To:</b><span class="m_714593427354117666gmail-m_2154052675120632775Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:uk@lists.osgeo.org" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">uk@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="m_714593427354117666gmail-m_2154052675120632775Apple-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">Anyone willing to put their hand up to chair a FOSS4G UK in 2018?</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IMHO, nothing will happen unless at least one “someone” (and ideally two “someones”) takes the lead. </div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="m_714593427354117666gmail-m_2154052675120632775apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">______</span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><br><span class="m_714593427354117666gmail-m_2154052675120632775apple-style-span">Steven</span><br><br><br></span></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On 24 Jul 2017, at 16:59, Steven Feldman <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">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><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">So the list of volunteers so far is:</div><div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </p></div><div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span class="m_714593427354117666gmail-m_2154052675120632775apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">______</span></span><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><br><span class="m_714593427354117666gmail-m_2154052675120632775apple-style-span">Steven</span><br><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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