[FOSS4G-Oceania] What is our upper limit of registrations?

[Cameron Shorter]

John,

I think we should be open to someone from a Professional Conference 
Organising (PCO) body being employed for this role.

We bring with us passion, and understanding of OSGeo principles. They 
should bring experience in the logistics and legalities of running a 
conference. If we find someone we trust, we can potentially bring them 
with us to the next FOSS4G too.

I don't have any particular person in mind for this. SSSI might have 
worked with a PCO before and be able to recommend someone. I'm CCing 
Stephen Lead who I've noticed is well connected and might have some ideas.

We might also want to reach out to http://pco.asn.au/ and see if they 
can recommend someone. (We should be careful not to have to trawl 
through 100s of applicants).


On 4/10/18 7:08 am, John Bryant wrote:
> OK team, let's wrap this one up.
>
> I'm reading the comments in this thread as generally supporting 
> setting an upper limit at 250, with some valid concerns raised around 
> our ability to handle the crowd size. With some further discussion on 
> the topic at last week's committee meeting, there was also general 
> support.
>
> Let's mitigate the HR risk as best we can, by making good use of paid 
> help in the lead up and during the conference itself (this was also 
> part of the meeting discussion).
>
> On that note, I've drafted a role description 
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oXjrk-qc2Qmgc2F36EwSUhAcelARwG2Lf5KlAmtOEuQ/edit#> 
> for a Conference Coordinator, and have circulated it to 
> Melbourne-based committee members and others, feel free to 
> share. Comments & suggestions on the role description welcome! It 
> would be good to get someone in place soon - if you know anyone in 
> Melbourne who would be good at this kind of work and is available, get 
> them to drop us a line at admin at foss4g-oceania.org 
> <mailto:admin at foss4g-oceania.org>.
>
> Cheers!
> John
>
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 10:48, Sarah Goodwin <sarah.goodwin at monash.edu 
> <mailto:sarah.goodwin at monash.edu>> wrote:
>
>     +1
>
>     On Thu., 27 Sep. 2018, 17:13 Edoardo Neerhut, <ed at mapillary.com
>     <mailto:ed at mapillary.com>> wrote:
>
>         Well in that case. Absolutely +1.
>
>         Maybe we can frame the announcement around "the number of
>         spots has been increased due to the overwhelming response".
>
>         On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 10:08, John Bryant
>         <johnwbryant at gmail.com <mailto:johnwbryant at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Thanks Edoardo. Having spent a fair bit of time walking
>             around the venue and looking at the rooms, and gradually
>             gaining confidence as we overcome uncertainty, my opinion
>             is that we can provide a comfortable environment for 250.
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