[FOSS4G-Oceania] Plenary Panel Session

[Cameron Shorter]

+1 Lets first look for panelist from attendees. I'm confident we will 
have plenty to choose from. (We have good candidates within the our 
conference committee).


On 22/7/18 9:18 pm, adam steer wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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