[FOSS4G-Oceania] Venue and dates for next conference

[Daniel Silk]

Hi all

Sorry I missed most of Friday's meeting due to a fire alarm in our building
(which was set off by a water leak?!).

This may seem a little premature without having sorted the governance
arragements, but venues are filling up fast so I'd like your thoughts.

I've been working on a 2019 Events calendar:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-bueIooYwUH6q8PQIH0J0Ou_KOpWhmJQl9Qa690z_Ao/edit#gid=57941525

November is *the busiest* time of the year.

I am wondering about two options:
1. Second half of October - but all of Oct is an exam period at VUW so
maybe we can't get any of the seminar rooms during that time. Still
possibly too close to every else that is happening in November?
2. Second half of February 2020 - I know, I know, it's too far away and not
in 2019, but it seems way more of a gap in the current events calendar.

It would be great to hear some input on these.

Also, on venue, I met with Victoria University of Wellington last week and
they are keen to assist in helping us host, under a similar arrangement to
University of Melbourne this year.

Their proposed venue is Rutherford House in their Pipitea Campus:
https://goo.gl/maps/6Btd98ZGp492

It has a 300 seat lecture theatre, a 150 seat lecture theatre, a 60 seat
lecture theatre and a large number of seminar rooms (like 20 split across
four levels??) that would suit for workshops. A few of the seminar rooms
also have partition walls that can be removed and would allow a third,
larger-than-60-seat space if we had 3 streams again.

These rooms are accessed off a large foyer area on a mezzanine level that
would be suitable for lunch and sponsor stands. The building was recently
upgraded and has large windows wrapping all the way around, with views out
over the historic Old Government Buildings and the Beehive (the executive
wing of our Parliament). The main Wellington bus terminal is on one side of
the building and the main Wellington railway station on the other side, so
super convenient. It's about a 4 minute walk to the waterfront.

They need some date ranges as soon as we can provide them in order to book
us in.

Thanks
Daniel
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