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

[Jeff McKenna]

The easiest way to operate is to have:

1) FOSS4G Local Committee, which looks for guidance from:
2) OSGeo Conference Committee

Of course it's important to have some "local" members on your  
committee.  But I'd say for simplistic sake let's keep it to 2  
committees.  And yes as Dave said the LOC must have sub-committees,  
such as the workshop committee.

I'm really sorry for this confusion.

-jeff




On 2-May-08, at 5:05 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>