[FOSS4G-Oceania] FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2019 Committee Roles

[Cameron Shorter]

Great to see people step up, and as I'm mentioned numerous times before,
I'm super impressed with the quality of people in our team.

Some thoughts on the subtle differences between leaders/despots/managers.
Great leaders are really good at capturing the collective opinion of the
team, helping each member in the team shine and reach their personal goals
and potential. It often involves creating space for people to step up. It
sometimes involves stepping back from an opinion you might have. It also
involves stepping in and taking up the slack and doing the dirty work when
no one steps up.

Adam, Alex, I see these characteristics in you both (as I do with the rest
of the team), and expect you would make use of these principles?

On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 08:19, Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Adam
>
> I'm happy to co-chair/sub-chair with you, if you take the Program Lead
> role on.
>
> I've got some strong opinions about the format. I think what we did last
> year worked really well, aside from the panel session, which was good, but
> was the weakest link.
>
> I think the key components of the program are:
>
>    1. Keynotes - we did well here last year, so let's try to do at least
>    as good this year!
>    2. Program - Sessionize sounds like the way to go regarding logistics,
>    and hopefully, again, we have a strong pool of talks to choose from.
>    3. Format - again, my opinion, but the format
>    <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tmqjTjK2w6qmbpGJo9_zZVkduPAYU4qTJm2x7K-TY7Q/edit>
>    worked well last year. If we can work out how to make the panel session
>    shine, that will round it off!
>
> Also a note that Stephen Lead did an incredible job organising the
> lightning talks, and I'd suggest we approach him again for this year. He'll
> probably be ok to be involved from an earlier point too.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 08:11 adam steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Daniel
>>
>> Apologies for a slow response, I’ve been turning this over a lot. ...and
>> thanks Ed for the great example of what to write! I add one extra item -
>> ‘risks’.
>>
>> *Role*
>> I’ve self-nominated to chair the program committee
>>
>> *Why*
>> I’m passionate about making OSGeo SotM Oceania different from ‘another
>> industry/science meeting’. The 2018 event is a fantastic base to build on;
>> and will be a hard act to follow. I don’t have any preset ideas about what
>> a program should look like; aside from some loose concepts around embracing
>> the whole community as much as possible, open-mindedness, raising new
>> voices, trying to avoid default options where we can, being open to how the
>> world changes between last time and now; and keeping that heady mix of
>> technical excellence and community-mindedness bubbling away!
>>
>> The programme committee also has a great set of resources (including
>> everyone reading this right now) to help figure out what will work and what
>> won’t; as well as seeing what boundaries we can push to engage people in
>> new ways (if we need to).
>>
>> My aim as chair is to more or less draw on all those resources; and do
>> the legwork which helps other people shine. Help keep barriers to
>> participation as low as possible, keep the programme committees life sane,
>> and support the delivery of a conference that is a success - which in turn
>> supports the main game: promoting, strengthening and building the open
>> geospatial community in Oceania.
>>
>> *Responsibilities I’m uncertain about*
>> From my view the responsibilities of the program chair seem pretty clear
>> - one of which is to delegate as much as possible to, for example, the good
>> mojo/community day team or the academic subcommittee (if one exists); and
>> another of which is to gather as much support as possible for putting the
>> actual program together. There are heaps of uncertainties about how it will
>> all work right at this point, there is no clear idea of what a program
>> might look like - we’ll work it out together!
>>
>> *Risks*
>> I’m waiting to hear about a job move which would see me wind my OSGeo
>> Oceania activities back a lot after about May 2019. I should know this
>> week, but may not find out until later in the month. In the event that
>> happens; I’ll work with the LOC to replace myself/hand over ASAP.
>>
>> …or another move which would do the opposite and land me right in ground
>> zero for 2019. So uncertainty abounds.
>>
>> With that in mind it’d be awesome to have someone nominate themselves as
>> committee co-chair; which there has been some out-of-list discussion about
>> already. From what I saw in 2018 there’s definitely enough work to share
>> around.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Adam Steer
>> http://spatialised.net
>> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam_Steer
>> http://au.linkedin.com/in/adamsteer
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>> skype: adam.d.steer
>> tweet: @adamdsteer
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