[FOSS4G-Oceania] Plenary Panel Session

Sun Jul 22 17:56:28 PDT 2018

+1 with Adam.
+, we do not have the topic yet – I would not automatically assume that keynotes are the best to chair or sit on the panel. Keynotes are ( byt definition )often tabngentially outside the community or domain, to provide a perspective. For some panels this may be ok, but for others not.
I would reach to Deanna ( Alex?) and invite her to participate, support and come to the event. If she registers, we could ask her for sitting on the panel. Chairing the panel is a mundane, (but hard) job. I would argue you get more value from the panellist if they do not chair it, but participate. The chair of the panel should be an organiser of the conference or someone well established IN the community already, at least that is more usual experience.

M.

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Date: Monday, 23 July 2018 at 10:38 am
To: Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Plenary Panel Session

Hi Alex, all

I strongly suggest that Deanna is invited to attend this event and listen in; and if she chooses to engage, then we can reassess how we engage next year. I don’t doubt that she has a wealth of experience and knowledge; and as CEO of SIBA she has an excellent platform from which to influence the spatial industry.

However - I also see a deep set of experience, knowledge and engagement on this committee; and in the people who have already signed up for the event. For every person we cherrypick/parachute in, we remove an opportunity for one of those established community members and drivers to stand in the spotlight.

I’d go as far as to argue that keynotes have the opportunity to have their say in their talks - and panels should selected from attendees. Perhaps keynotes could chair sessions? …and would anyone on this committee group say no to an invitation to sit on a panel and contribute to a discussion? Probably not...

Getting to be more like my $2.50 rather than $0.02… happy to hear other ideas.

On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 at 06:43, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com<mailto:alexgleith at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi All

I agree around panelists, but this suggestion is specifically for the chair.

Panelists will likely be formed partly of keynotes, but some others too (for example, Cameron has said that he would be interested in being on a diversity panel).

Anyhow, seems that the consensus is that we shouldn't invite a panel chair, we should pick one from attendees. I do disagree with this, in this case. Here is an opportunity to bring someone along from the broader community, in this case, someone leading the spatial business community, and she will bring with her some diversity of opinion, and some deep insights. It is quite likely that she would register for the event, too, we just can't be sure about that!

Cheers,

On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 at 22:07 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com<mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:

+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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