[FOSS4G-Oceania] INFO: Pre-meeting update

[Alex Leith]

I think the AV plan looks perfect, John.


On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 4:38 pm, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all, just a brief pre-meeting update from me ahead of tomorrow's
> meeting, in the interests of conserving meeting time and making sure
> everyone's up to date on stuff. If anyone else wants to do similar, seems
> like a decent way to get people up to speed ahead of the discussion.
>
> *Building & room access*
> We're not able to get a key for the room we originally planned to use as
> an organiser's room (152), so aiming to secure another space. I'm
> optimistic we'll be able to get this space for the Monday, which will give
> us a chance to move some stuff in the day before Workshops Day.
>
> *Conference Coordinator hire*
> We have a Coordinator! Her name is Tania Hibbard-Nitz, and she's already
> part of the open source geospatial community, previously part owner of
> Digital Mapping Solutions NZ. She previously registered for the conference,
> but was enticed by the thought of helping out, and has a strong
> organisational background. Looking forward to working with Tania over the
> coming weeks.
>
> *Travel Grant Program*
> We've awarded 7 grants, and are waiting to hear back from the 8th person
> selected. This should be complete very soon. There will be a small amount
> of TGP funds left over, which we can discuss at the meeting.
>
> *A/V planning*
> Martin gave me a demo of the uni's Lecture Capture system yesterday, it's
> very slick and should support our video recording effort very nicely. After
> sifting through the video quotes, I've spoken to a company and gotten into
> some of the details with them, will confirm their participation on Monday.
>
> I'm working on pulling together the A/V requirements for the venue, mostly
> around microphones. There's a doc here
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u2cI8PwN7RxaXN3wBLR4pyYOyFgKR9TCJ8A8cCJ31gU/edit#gid=440505796>
> annotating requirements for each session, if anyone has experience with
> this kind of thing, please take a quick look and let me know if there's
> anything to add.
>
> Cheers
> John
>
>
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Alex Leith
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