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

[Cameron Shorter]

+1 Cameron

On 16/11/18 8:52 pm, John Bryant wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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