[Board] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G Discount for Charter Members proposal

[Steven Feldman]

+111 or whatever denotes big agreement
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Steven


On 26 Aug 2014, at 14:50, Darrell Fuhriman <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.
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> 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:
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> A) Hi, LOC, here’s the signage you need. Make it fit your theme, it’s due on….
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> and
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> 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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