[OSGeo-Conf] Nominate Jeroen to join the conference committee

[Cameron Shorter]

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Conference committee,
After discussing with Jeroen, I'd like to nominate Jeroen to join the 
OSGeo conference committee, including have Jeroen vote on the upcoming 
FOSS4G 2014 bid.

As per:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Jeroen_Ticheler

Jeroen has organised the annual Bosena Code Sprint, contributed to a 
proposal for a Netherlands FOSS4G, is a regular sponsor and workshop 
presenter at FOSS4G events, has previously served on the OSGeo Board, 
and as noted below, has some insightful questions for foss4g 2014.

I don't believe Jeroen has any vested interests in either foss4g 2014 
bid (Jeroen please speak up if I'm wrong) and as such will also provide 
a valuable and impartial vote for foss4g 2014.

+1 from me.

>
> On 3/07/2013 9:00 AM, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
>> Dear committee member,
>> Although I'm not on the conf committee, I do have a few questions 
>> which I hope can be dealt with. They are not on the program, I hope 
>> to look into those as well, but thought I post these now. Both 
>> proposals are solid pieces of work, congratulations!
>>
>> Both submitters (and committee members):
>> - Do we have statistics on how many viewers we have / had for the AV 
>> streaming of conference presentations? I notice that in both 
>> proposals the streaming services are quite expensive (Portland 
>> 67.500$, Washington 50.000$) although I'm not sure the Washington 
>> number includes other facilities as well?
>> I think it is relevant to understand if this investment in streaming 
>> video is worth the money or that money would be better spend in 
>> another way / could lower the registration fees.
>> An option is also to record plenary presentations instead of all 
>> sessions?
>>
>> Portland:
>> - It looks like there is an error in the formula for "Credit Card 
>> Fees (eventbrite)".
>> - Do workshop presenters receive a complementary registration for 
>> their efforts? This used to be good practice but was lost for the 
>> FOSS4G2013 conference. I see they are part of the Washington proposal 
>> :-)
>> - It would be nice to offer the Swag as options for sponsoring
>> - It may make sense to also budget for ~650 attendees?
>>
>> Washington:
>> - No money for marketing
>> - Lunch and breaks seems pretty expensive at 60$ + 35$ /person/day 
>> while the conference center is very cheap. Are they part of a package 
>> deal?
>> - What happens with the net profit or loss beyond the OSGeo 
>> contribution?
>> - Operations total cost is quite high. This includes "Meeting planner 
>> fee" and EF Staff and travel. Are these two complementary? And if so, 
>> could that be simplified to reduce the operations budget?
>> - It is unfortunate a number of budget items are still TBD, making 
>> comparison with the budget of Portland more complicated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jeroen
>>
>>
>> On 2 jul. 2013, at 21:10, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear conference committee members,
>>>
>>> We have received the full bid documents from Portland, OR and
>>> Washington, DC. It now fall to *you* to review those documents and ask
>>> the questions you have of the bidders.
>>>
>>> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2014/2014_Proposal_Portland.pdf 
>>>
>>> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2014/2014_Proposal_Portland_Budget.xls 
>>>
>>>
>>> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2014/2014_Proposal_Washington.pdf 
>>>
>>> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/proposals/2014/2014_Proposal_Washington_Budget.xlsx 
>>>
>>>
>>> The Q&A period is very *short* so please read and question to 
>>> bidders ASAP.
>>>
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2014_Bid_Process#Bid_Process
>>>
>>> Post your questions and look for responses on conference_dev.
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>>
>>> Paul
>>> 2014 RFP Coordinator
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>
>


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