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

[Daniel Silk]

Haere mai Ed!

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:30 PM Edoardo Neerhut <ed at mapillary.com> wrote:

> +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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