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

[Lorenzo Becchi]

+1 for me, I believe Jeroen can be of great help
thanks for accepting


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:46 AM, seven at arnulf.us <seven at arnulf.us> wrote:

> +1 for Jeroen to join the conf committee. Welcome!
>
> Have fun,
> Arnulf
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> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> To: "Jeroen Ticheler" <jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net>
> Cc: "conference" <conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] Nominate Jeroen to join the conference committee
> Date: Wed, Jul 3, 2013 02:00
>
>
> Resent to conference list without large CC list (to avoid triggering
> email moderation) ...
>
> 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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