[Board] [OSGeo-Conf] Getting the organization for 2014 settled

[Paul Ramsey]

I came very close to recommending that after 2007, as our POC was very
good and a good fit. The trouble is as an international conference,
the familiarity with venue and processes diminishes wish distance. The
2007 POC could capably do any North American venue, but would probably
have difficulty doing European ones.

Continuing to work with GITA for our North American events would seem
(to me) to be a great fit. And I would continue to refer Sea2Sky (2007
company) as well.

P.


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org> wrote:
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> On Aug 27, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:
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>> I'm a bit confused, you have $30K in the budget for a professional
>> conference organizer, they should be able to be the bank, and signer
>> of contracts, with the possible exception of the venue, which could be
>> handled as a one-off using Daniel or Jeff as the signer for OSGeo. Who
>> is your professional organizing company?
>
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> The intention was to hire someone as a contractor, not as a company (paid via 1099 in US-speak). Hence no company to sign contracts.
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> If OSGeo is going to require a third-party to be used to sign contracts then that should be spelled out in the requirements. At best, hiring a PCO was strongly suggested, but with no suggestion of what that arrangement should/must look like.
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> Better than that would be that OSGeo has on ongoing contract with a company to handle these arrangements. If we're going to do the conference every year, then having consistency is much better than re-inventing the wheel each time. It's probably cheaper, too.
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>
> Darrell
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