[FOSS4G-Oceania] 10 days to go! Update, committee movements, and help wanted

[adam steer]

Hey john

Happy to run bofs.

any photos I take will be available ccby. Although I'll be a bit busy to do
any 'official photographer' things.

I'll add to the scheduling doc and survey doc over the weekend.

Thanks!



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On Sat., 10 Nov. 2018, 16:12 John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> It has been a very busy few weeks of pulling logistics together, with
> plenty of loose ends being tied up, many boxes being ticked. For those of
> you actively involved with these logistics, you'll be particularly aware of
> the parts you're working on, but for others there may be an air of mystery
> around what's happening.
>
> To try and keep everyone informed, here's a very brief rundown on some
> items you may not be aware of:
>
> *A/V*: I will be doing a site visit with our Uni A/V tech (Isabel) and
> our hired videographer (Neil) on Wednesday afternoon, to do a final check
> of equipment and rooms, and answer some outstanding questions about the
> tech. We've booked extra microphone kits through AVMelbourne so that we'll
> have enough mics in the rooms for all sessions.
>
> *Registration*: current rego #s are 224 conf, 182 workshops, 115 dinner,
> 75 Community Day. We need to make our best guess at the final numbers for
> catering this week (conf #s on Mon, dinner #s on Wed).
>
> *Welcome messages*: We have a short video welcome message from María
> Arias de Reyna, president of OSGeo. We'll play it at the conference
> welcome, but you can get a sneak preview here
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeRLecyvDtU>. We're waiting on one from
> Kate Chapman (OSMF chair) as well.
>
> *Sponsorship*: Adam has done a great job of allocating tables and helping
> the sponsors get what they need. We'll have some rental dividers delivered
> to the Old Arts Building for their use. One of our sponsors (Carto) can't
> make the conference, so their partner NGIS will be taking their place in
> the exhibition hall.
>
>
> I'm sure there are 100 other things I'm forgetting, anyone please chime in
> and add to this if you can think of anything worth updating on.
>
> To coordinate our movements during the week to some degree, and to try and
> make sure we have key activities covered, I've started a Logistics
> Schedule
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14SUaF8x3FMHq5bnGIpVXI7a-sB-yYilzUi-YZdwlytc/edit#gid=0>
> sheet with activities, times, locations, and which committee members will
> be there & available to help with stuff. It's a private sheet for committee
> use, not visible to the public. *If you don't mind, take 2 minutes, jump
> in there and mark your name against the items you'll be attending*, just
> to help eliminate some of the guesswork. If you think of anything that's
> missing, feel free to add it in.
>
> A few outstanding items that would be great to get some help on:
>
> *BoF planning* - can someone please put their hand up to coordinate this?
> It has come up a few times, and the general message I've heard is "it's
> easy, there's nothing to it". But of course, if we actually do nothing
> about it, then nothing will happen. I would love it if someone could put
> their hand up to make this happen. We will have a whiteboard available for
> signups, and we have rooms we can use. Just need someone to pull the
> threads together.
>
> *Photos *- it would be great to have a nice set of photos from the day.
> There are many ways to do it, from having dedicated photographers to asking
> people to upload photos somewhere to gathering them from social media.
> There are licence implications of course, would be nice to have photos with
> a permissive licence so we can use them freely in future. If someone can
> think of a good way to make this happen, and (importantly) *do the work*
> to make it happen, that would be wonderful.
>
> *Post-conf surveys* - has come up a few times here and there in our
> discussions, there is obviously tremendous value in getting feedback from
> our attendees and sponsors. Quite a bit of the work has been done here
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KSrds5SvNF2L0xbuR7gNQHjdHIJv6PJJYzpAXs70utc/edit#heading=h.2b72jxoggl6b>.
> It would probably make sense to have this ready to go before the conference
> so we can do it immediately after, when it's still fresh in people's minds.
> Would someone be willing to organise this and see this through?
>
>
> Of course, if anyone has any questions at all, please fire away...
>
> Talk soon,
> John
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