[Board] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G Discount for Charter Members proposal
Andrew Ross
andrew.ross at eclipse.org
Tue Aug 26 07:14:39 PDT 2014
+1 Well said Darrell.
And confirming I would be happy to participate in any discussions.
On 26/08/14 09:52, David William Bitner wrote:
> +1 to everything Darrell just said!
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org
> <mailto:darrell at garnix.org>> wrote:
>
> > One of the things I've heard in the past is that some people are
> afraid that running a more professional conference will take away
> the grass roots / community feeling of FOSS4G. As I said, I myself
> have no issues with this, but it's a common theme that comes up.
>
> Actually, I think it could be *more* grass roots if there were a
> dedicated staff to handle the day-to-day stuff. The LOC could
> focus on conference issues, without having to learn the
> ins-and-outs of running a conference.
>
> There's an enormous number of things that need to be done that
> have nothing at all to do with a grass roots/community feel, but
> that burn a huge amount of time, especially if you've never done
> it before.
>
> There's a big difference in time spent between:
>
> A) Hi, LOC, here's the signage you need. Make it fit your theme,
> it's due on....
>
> and
>
> B) Hey, what signage do we need? Where does it go? What size
> should it be? Who's printing it? Oh crap, we forgot about signs
> for X, shit someone throw something together...
>
> Substitute a million little things for "signage" and repeat.
>
> Darrell
>
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