[Foss4g2009] Nominations for position of Local Organising Committee Chair for FOSS4G-2009

[Cameron Shorter]

My intent is that Sydney follows the previous committee structure set up 
by previous conferences, and we have copied our Governance text from the 
Victoria conference.

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Governance

I see that my proposed structure was slightly different to this, and 
agree that we should modify the proposal to fall in line with previous 
OSGeo Conferences.

So if I understand correctly, we will have:
0. FOSS4G2009 local committee, which is a subset of the FOSS4G2009 
committee.
1. FOSS4G2009 committee. This committee will have a local chairperson, 
and answers to:
2. OSGeo Conference committee, who answers to:
3. OSGeo Board.

Still to be resolved by Monday is the position of FOSS4G2009 committee 
chair, which I have volunteered for.

Dave Patton wrote:
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>
>> Normally there is a conference committee that actually operates the 
>> conference (often called the Local Operating Committee or LOC).  It 
>> appears you are suggesting another committee beyond this.  I would 
>> gentle discourage this.  My suggestion is to make the LOC mailing
>> list subscription open to anyone but keep it straight that extra
>> readers/posters aren't actually LOC members and don't get votes on
>> decisions.  They just get the opportunity to comment, suggest,
>> volunteer, etc.
>
> I thought that the structure we had for FOSS4G2007 worked well.
>
> Organizing Committee:
> http://www.foss4g2007.org/about_foss4g/
> The "Victoria Committee" wasn't really
> a separate committee - it's just the people
> who lived geographically close to Victoria:
> - Paul, Brian, Evert, and Dave in Victoria
> - Jason in Nanaimo (2 hours: drive)
> - Tyler in Williams Lake (9+ hours: drive + ferry)
> - Dale in Vancouver (4 hours: drive + ferry)
> Two mailing lists were used - the general public
> conference mailing list, and a private list only
> for the Organizing Committee, which was only used
> when there had to be non-public discussions.
> Almost all meetings were via conference call, but
> there were some meetings were some of the committee
> members met face to face (and sometimes included
> a conference call as well). All meetings included
> the participation of Sea to Sky, the conference
> organizers, including on-site meetings at the
> conference venue.
>
>
> Workshop Committee:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2007_Workshops#FOSS4G_Workshop_Committee_Members 
>
> Jody is the only other person on that list
> who lives in Victoria. The Workshop Committee chair
> should be a member of the Organizing Committee.
> Two mailing lists were used - a general 'workshops
> list', for discussions with and by the Workshop
> and Lab Instructors (Instructors were required to
> join this list), and a private list for Workshop
> Committee members for non-public discussions.
> Almost all the committee meetings took place on
> IRC, with the last three meetings prior to the
> conference being via conference call.
>
>


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