[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2017 - Questions for LoI cities

[Steven Feldman]

Thanks Michael

That is a good response at this stage
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Steven


> On 18 Aug 2015, at 20:58, Michael Terner <mgt at appgeo.com> wrote:
> 
> Steve:
> Thanks for the good and important question on "affordability" and "cost control" that you posted on Friday. At this juncture, it would be very difficult to provide an "all in" cost for attending the show; that level of planning comes with the "proposal", should we have the opportunity to present one. That said, we 100% agree that affordability is an important driver and we want the largest and most diverse attendee pool possible. We are working very hard on this issue and are prepared to be focused and creative to keep costs down for the attendees.
> 
> While Boston cannot be considered a "lowest cost" city, we believe that an attractive and popular city like Boston affords many benefits that will help us keep costs down and make the conference a good value for everyone:
> As registration is a key piece of the "all in" cost, our overall goal will be to have conference registration costs be no higher, and if possible less than the previous global FOSS4G events.
> We believe that Boston will be a very strong draw and that will result in very strong attendance. Strong attendance provides the economies of scale that can help keep costs down. We will be aiming to have an attendance that well exceeds 1,000.
> We believe that the Boston area with our deep technology economy will be able to attract a very strong lineup of sponsors and that heightened sponsorship will also help to defray participant costs. We expect to be extremely vigorous and creative in our sponsorship recruitment.
> The strong participation of the local academic community - several of whom are already represented on our LOC - will provide unique, cost saving venue opportunities that will help provide the workshops at a minimum cost.
> The Greater Boston area maintains a diversity of hotel, dining and entertainment options and our downtown airport and public transportation system makes traveling across the region easy and affordable.
> In addition to hotels, the region supports many alternative lodging options like hostels and Airbnb. 
> Ultimately, Boston has a very large student population and there are many options aimed at that "limited budget" demographic. In short, we believe there will be great choices for people at all budget levels.
> 
> MT
> 
> PS: Many thanks for all the committee member's efforts in this processes and special thanks to Jeff and Steve for their insight, suggestions and good questions.
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> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com <mailto:shfeldman at gmail.com>> wrote:
> A question for all 3 cities:
> 
> I am worried about the cost for a delegate to attend including hotels, food, workshops and conference fee. We know from past experiences that this can be an issue for people who are not sponsored by large organisations. We want to make FOSS4G accessible to as many people as possible and a few bursaries aren’t sufficient.
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> Can you provide some estimates of all in cost for a delegate on a budget.
> 
> OSGeo Board needs to give a clear steer on ‘surplus objectives’ to the bidding teams before they finalise their budgets in the next round
> 
> To Ottawa:
> 
> I agree with Jeff re co-chairs, for 2013 we had a single chair and 2 very strong vice-chairs who took on large portfolios of responsibility.
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> Steven
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