[OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

Sat Oct 21 00:35:13 PDT 2017

In 2016 we also streamed the whole conference - for free.

Till

Am 18.10.2017 um 20:06 schrieb Nonie Castro:
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> Just a thought – this year NACIS livestreamed their entire conference
> <http://nacis.org/annual-meeting/current-meeting/> to their members.
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> Maybe charging a fee to receive streams of the FOSS4G sessions would
> allow some people to attend that couldn’t otherwise afford to.
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> I count myself in that number.
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> Thank you,
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> Nonie
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> *From:*Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of
> *Andrea Aime
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 18, 2017 3:30 AM
> *To:* Bruce Bannerman
> *Cc:* discuss
> *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs
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> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Bruce Bannerman
> <bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com
> <mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> When you look at the costs associated with a person attending a
> typical international FOSS4G event, the actual conference fees a small
> amount of the actual cost.
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> Consider airfares, transportation, accomodation, meals, lost wages
> etc. There is nothing that an LOC can do about these individual costs.
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> Ah hem, nothing that the LOC can do once the conference site is
> chosen, but something that OSGeo can do when assigning the location
> and timing.
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> And I believe that is happening, if I'm not wrong for the first time
> the LOC needs to provide expected cost of airfare and accommodation as
> part
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> of their proposal, which will make people consider carefully that
> aspect too. 
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> Another aspect that was not cited but that I heard in conversations
> and believe is important, it's that it is really hard to compress
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> the cost of a large conference: the LOC needs a place that can host
> 1000 people, and that can give internet to this many people,
>
> that places forces the catering package on you (I've been told by
> several conference chairs there no way to dodge that) and the 
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> two together make up for a large amount of the cost.
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> So, besides some exceptions (think FOSDEM) it seems the only way to
> setup a cheaper conference is to make a smaller
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> one that can be hosted at a university or in a smaller conference
> center. Hence the focus on the local conferences.
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> I believe the threshold is at around 500 people, larger than that one
> is hung on the costly options.
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> Cheers
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> Andrea
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