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

[Edoardo Neerhut]

+1 agree with all points. Kia ora Wellington!

On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 15:45, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 from me
>
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 10:54 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> +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> 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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