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

[Bruce Bannerman]

I'd strongly recommend having a second look at engaging a professional
conference organiser.

It made the organisation of FOSS4G-2009 much easier for us and allowed us
to concentrate more on the FOSS4G content, sponsorship etc, knowing that
we had good people helping with the actual venue, catering, event
organisation (together with the myriad of little things that people who
don't do this for a living may well miss e.g. getting an LOC badge for
Jeff on the first day of the conference ;-)  ).

Bruce



On 28/08/13 4:08 AM, "Darrell Fuhriman" <darrell at garnix.org> wrote:

>
>On Aug 27, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>
>Darrell
>
>
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