[FOSS4G-Oceania] Potential Georabble during event week

[John Bryant]

Hi all,

There has been some discussion going on with GeoRabble organisers about the
possibility of organising a GeoRabble event during the week of our event.
For us to get behind this, obviously we would need to figure out a time
slot when this could make sense.

The idea is that the GR crew would organise the GR event, and we would
merely make way for this to happen, and promote it to our attendees. This
is all hypothetical, until we get confirmation from the Melbourne GR
organisers that they actually want to do this.

At today's committee meeting, we batted around some ideas for time slots
when this could happen. The options we came up with are listed below, with
some pros & cons of each.

*GeoRabble. Discussed options.*


   - Ozri is on Wed 21 Nov, finishes at 6pm. It is targeting Vic only (as
   Ozri happens in other Australian capital cities).
   https://esriaustralia.com.au/events-ozri
   - One opportunity for Georabble is to mingle with ESRI users and help
   move these users one step to the left (toward Open Source), and help reach
   an audience that wouldn’t usually come to Open Source.

*Options for Georabble night:*

Tu 20 Nov (Workshop)


   - Pro: Provides an informal introduction to the event, while enabling
   mixing of crowds. Could be a confluence of Ozri, GeoRabble and FOSS4G SotM
   folks. Most people will already be in Melbourne.
   - Con: This is when we have our icebreaker event planned. If the intent
   of the icebreaker is to let FOSS4G attendees meet each other, then
   replacing it with a GeoRabble will potentially make this outcome less
   potent.

We 21 Nov (Presentations) (Ozri day)


   - Pro: Potential to have Ozri attendees continue on from Ozri onto
   GeoRabble
   - Con: Would mean we’d need to move dinner (to Thursday).

Th 22 Nov (Presentations)


   - Pro: We don't have anything planned for this time.
   - Con: Some people may leave after conference day 2, and will be
   unavailable to attend.

Fr 23 Nov (afternoon of Community Day)


   - Pro: Same day as free Community Day, so volunteers will already be
   around. Could contribute to festival atmosphere of CD.
   - Con: Friday is last day of conference, and start of weekend, and many
   people will be heading home.

There is some urgency to coming to a conclusion on this, as our
registrations are due to open on Monday, and one of the above options
requires us to move our dinner event, thus changing what some people would
be registering for. It would be best to not change the date of the dinner
after people have bought tickets.

So as I see it, the question is in two parts: 1) should we make room for
GeoRabble in our schedule, and 2) if so, which of the above options makes
the most sense for us?

John
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