[FOSS4G-Oceania] Venue and dates for next conference

[Greg Lauer]

Although it is a busy time of year I think the third week of November is
suitable

- Uni term is finished
- Dovetails into the South Pacific GIS and RS conference
- Wellington weather!

As most of the other conferences have not confirmed 2019 dates then we
should take the lead.

We can ignore Ozri, and the SSSI conferences are regional, so don't think
there is much conflict. We may struggle with 'competing funds' to attend
conferences but I don't think time of year will matter for that.

I think it is important that we lock in the dates now, especially as
attendees may need to add to next years budgets, international travel etc.
For some international travel budgets may be more difficult to manage.

I think the venue would work well - central location and enough space - do
we have any idea of costs?

Greg

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 10:06 AM Daniel Silk <dwsilk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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