[FOSS4G-Oceania] Fwd: Potential Georabble during event week

[Cameron Shorter]

Suggestion here from Stephen Lead (from Georabble):


On 25/6/18 5:50 am, Stephen Lead wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
>
> If it's easy to shift the conference dinner to Thursday, then it would 
> make sense to hold GeoRabble on the Wednesday to hopefully catch some 
> of the Ozri crowd.
>
> If not, hold GeoRabble on the Thursday when there isn't anything else 
> scheduled.
>
> I don't think it's a good idea to hold it during the 'icebreaker' 
> event since people will want to catch up with old friends and make new 
> ones, and not listen to talks.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
> if (conferenceDinner.isFlexible?) then {
>   geoRabble.day = 'wednesday'
> } else {
>   geoRabble.day = 'thursday'
> }
>
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>
>> Maurits, Stephen,
>>
>> It would be great to have you guys weigh in on this vote, bringing in 
>> your experience with GeoRabble. Discussion is happening on: 
>> foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org
>>
>> You can reply to me and I'll forward onto the list, or subscribe to 
>> the list and then reply directly.
>>
>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g-oceania
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: 	[FOSS4G-Oceania] Potential Georabble during event week
>> Date: 	Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:55:57 +1000
>> From: 	John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
>> To: 	foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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