[FOSS4G-Oceania] Are any other cities considering bidding to hold FOSS4G-Oceania 2019?

[John Bryant]

Hi all,

In a philosophical, but productive discussion at today's meeting, there was
clear support for the Wellington proposal. Obviously there is much work to
do to firm this up and determine many of the details around what this would
look like, but given that:

   1. we have a very solid proposal on the table, from a proponent who is
   intimately familiar with what it has taken to create the event we're about
   to put on, and with substantial support already committed from individuals
   and organisations
   2. we have no other proposals (acknowledging that we don't have a robust
   process in place to solicit these, but I posit that at this point, if
   anyone was seriously interested in putting together a bid for 2019, they
   would have raised it by now)
   3. having the conference in NZ would reinforce our status as an
   international event, serving to establish a good basis for continuing to
   brand ourselves as 'Oceania'
   4. LINZ has been a supporter of this event from early on, and is
   historically a very strong adopter of open source geospatial
   5. as the national capital, we might expect a high local turnout from
   Wellington (Canberra/ACT is *by far* our highest per-capita source of
   attendees in 2018, at least 27 from a population of 420000)
   6. by making this decision now, we clear the way for making an
   announcement next week, when it will have the most impact

I'd like to put forward a motion: *that we confirm our support for
Wellington as the destination for this event in 2019*.

+1 from me. What say you?


On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 22:18, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm keen to have this discussion on Friday and move forward by email over
> the following few days before we kick off. I've put it on this Friday's
> agenda
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZmCKjEgYoR4cVYgdjDgEKt3DQV-NTJ52_h1ACeLHHCg/edit#>,
> and I'll make plans to include an announcement in the end-of-conf address,
> pending a committee decision.
>
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