[FOSS4G-Oceania] Plenary Panel Session

[adam steer]

dang, I missed that one. I think I was in the swiss mountains not caring
about anything electronic.

We don’t offer one day, or one session registrations (with the exception of
workshops). We’re expecting general community members to turn up, we should
expect that people we shine the spotlight on (as panelists, chairs,
speakers, plenaries, keynotes) to turn up as well. Otherwise it’s a crappy
message.

Are we afraid that we won’t fill a program? Are we worried that there is
not enough expertise in the community that *does* turn up?

I’m not.

…and +1 to Martin’s thoughts.

:D





On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 at 21:07, 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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