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

[John Bryant]

Thanks Adam, sounds good.

I'm optimistic that the word of mouth approach will work. Let's see what
comes up in the next few days.

On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 07:44, adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi all
>
> let me ping a couple of contacts at CSIRO (Mel) and BOM (also Mel) before
> we advertise.
>
> cheers
>
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 06:00, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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