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

[Greg Lauer]

+1

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 7:52 PM John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> 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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