[FOSS4G-Oceania] Workshop selections update

[Alex Leith]

Well done team!

On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 at 13:25 John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all, I want to provide an update from the workshop selection
> committee, which consists of Trisha, me, Martin, Vasiti, Greg, and Jonathan
> Garber (Uni Melbourne, lots of practical experience organising workshops).
>
> We're very very close to finalising the selection process, which has been
> both arduous and enlightening. Appreciate the input from Cameron & Andrew
> here. We have tried to incorporate the principle of asking presenters to
> communicate, and will be rolling this out over the next couple of days.
> Rather than doing this in a public way, we're directly contacting
> presenters in groups where we see some thematic overlap, and encouraging
> them to communicate and make their presentations as complementary as
> possible. Will also aim to connect accepted & *not* accepted presenters,
> so we might be able to facilitate offers of help there.
>
> One outcome of our selection committee discussions that may surprise a bit
> is that we decided to expand from 10 to 14 workshop sessions (ie 7 rooms,
> morning & afternoon sessions). We realise there is some risk of spreading
> too thin, but had to weigh this against the importance of carrying a
> program with diverse topics, and honouring the community vote. It wasn't a
> decision we arrived at lightly. Even with this expansion, there are
> certainly many submissions that are painful to cut... one take away lesson
> for me is there's no perfect way to do this. By expanding into 2 extra
> rooms, though, we hope that we've reached a good compromise that will make
> people happy.
>
> Much more work to be done over the next few days, communicating with
> presenters and preparing the registration system and website for publishing
> the workshop program on Thursday. Also need to wrap up the notes & work in
> such a way that we can make it public and keep it for future reference, and
> consolidate some notes on lessons learned.
>
> Huge thanks to the selection committee for their work over the last
> several days, Alex for organising the community vote & registration,
> Cholena for getting the website ready for publishing, and especially to
> Trisha who has done a masterful job of pulling this together efficiently &
> with sensitivity. And of course, all the people who submitted the beautiful
> workshop proposals we have to work with :)
>
> jb
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Alex Leith
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