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<p>Dear Eli,</p>
<p>thanks for bringing this up and sorry for not replying earlier.
In general your thoughts are justified. It *is* a lot of work when
organizing a conference like FOSS4G, but it's also passion.</p>
<p>If you ask for my vote, I'd also prefer "option 2" because it is
always better to review the existing status than not to do this.<br>
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<p>But, although you postproned a discussion to "later", I'd like to
add some thoughts:</p>
<p>1. I like the idea, that every conference is somehow "individual"
- individual, because new LOC's bring up new ideas, that may also
become part of future conferences.</p>
<p>2. Also I was really happy as chair of my LOC, that we were able
to realize our ideas, that might fit better to our region, than
getting a global stamp by outsiders<br>
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<p>In the german speaking chapter (FOSSGIS), we do it slightly
different from OSGeo. There is the permanent conference committee
(that is open to everybody), that organizes the program and does
all the financial issues like ticketing and so on - in other
words, everything, that is not individual or need to be done
locally. This committee is supported by a person, that gets paid
for organizing our events and that does this for several years
now. Then there is the LOC, that cares about the venue, the social
events and everything else, that can be located at site. <br>
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<p>In general I like this idea, although I really appreciate, that
at OSGeo those who already did a conference and have the
experience (because experience is different than having an
opinion) form the conference committee. In times I joined the
FOSSGIS-committee, it felt sometimes more like a debating club ...</p>
<p>Just my 2 cents,</p>
<p>Till <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 03.02.22 um 15:03 schrieb Eli Adam:<br>
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<div>The current FOSS4G structure has a new LOC every year
starting more or less from scratch (some things like mailing
lists and seed money are passed on). Over the years, many
people have commented on the load of work this creates for the
LOC, the general inefficiency, the risk, and the burnout. </div>
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<div>If you consider yourself a voting member of the committee
(<a
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Current_Members"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee#Current_Members</a>),
please indicate your preference on this. </div>
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<div>This is an informal poll to see if the conference committee
wants to:</div>
<div>1. Keep it the way it is and not change anything<br>
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<div>2. Change the FOSS4G organizing structure to something else
(discussion of what we change it to can come later if people
want to pursue this). </div>
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<div>As I've expressed several times, I prefer option 2,
changing the FOSS4G organizing structure. <br>
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<div>Thanks for your time and participation.</div>
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<div>Best regards, Eli</div>
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