[FOSS4G-Oceania] Plenary Panel Session

[Martin Tomko]

I repeat Adam's sentiment. Certainly for panelists (why would I want to hear a discussion from someone not making n effort to hear the community throughout?).
M.

On 22 Jul. 2018 9:07 pm, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
Good point. I agree this is 'for the community, by the community' and we should aim in that direction.

But recall that we did have an email discussion about non-attending speakers (email thread: Conference Presenters and their Attendance, 27 June<http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Conference-Presenters-and-their-Attendance-td5369372.html>), where this was suggested as a way to mitigate concerns around speakers not getting a discount:

“We are aiming for an engaging and participatory conference, with minimal distinction between presenters and attendees. While we really appreciate all our presenters and would love to provide them with a free ticket, we have opted instead to try and keep registration prices low and are asking presenters to purchase a registration. If that is not possible for a presenter, they may attend free of charge for the session they are presenting in, and the break immediately afterwards.”

I very much agree that the ideal is to have speakers attend, and for attendees to speak. But for those that can't/won't, we've made this accommodation. I'm supposing that this will apply to a very small number of people, in any case.

So the question at hand is - do we apply this principle to a panel chair? Or do we aim for a higher standard for this level of participation?


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