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

[Alex Leith]

A PCO is a bit too much, I think. Maybe they will take on a small job like
ours, but I feel we'd be better served by someone more casual.

I've asked the woman who helps with Locate, and she's not available (but
would have been great).

I think we need to find a way to advertise the role...

On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 05:17 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> Cheers!
> John
>
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 10:48, Sarah Goodwin <sarah.goodwin at monash.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> On Thu., 27 Sep. 2018, 17:13 Edoardo Neerhut, <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> 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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