[Foss4g2009] Re: [Foss4g2009-private] Re: Workshop / Tutorial Submissions

[Mark Leslie]

Jeff has brought up some good points, in particular that my email has 
left much room for confusion.  The short story here is that I'm looking 
for people to publicly commit to the workshops committee and get 
themselves signed up on the list.

While these people will be responsible for voting for workshops, they 
will also be expected to help closer to conference time, answering 
questions from confused presenters about everything from printing and 
timing to what to wear, directing people on workshop day and even 
helping to clean up.  This is an actual commitment that I'm looking for. 
  If you're in, please join the list and let everyone know.

For the voting side of things, it's not all going to happen on the 
workshops list.  In fact, almost none of it will.  It will happen in 
private emails, or a private list if we have sufficient numbers, but 
I'll go over that with the committee near the end of the week.

It should also be noted that the committee doesn't have the final word 
on selection.  This has been a point of confusion in the past, but the 
final selection falls to the Local Organising Committee.

Mark Leslie
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Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Mark Leslie wrote:
>>>> - the "contact" link on the /workshops/ page of OCS should point to 
>>>> the workshop committee email (conference-workshops at lists.osgeo.org)
>>>
>>> Shouldn't this be an individual and not a list that bounces non 
>>> members?  If a list then they might rather be sent to the 
>>> subscription page for that list.
>>
>> It has been brought to my attention that we should be using this list 
>> for topics like voting and discussing which workshops / tutorials to 
>> accept and organising volunteers prior to the conference.
>>
>> It looks like the list hasn't been in use since September so I'm going 
>> to steal in now for my own nefarious purposes.  I'd like anybody that 
>> is interested in volunteering to help out with the workshops before 
>> and during the conference AND who would like to put their 0.02AUD in 
>> to the selection process to sign up to the list and announce your 
>> intentions. Then I'll have a better idea who I have to work with.
>>
>> Note: this thread is migrating to the open list.
>>
>> -- 
> 
> No, that is not the purpose of the [conference-workshops] public list. 
> It already contains many of the past workshop presenters subscribed to 
> it, and it is used to communicate with the presenters.  For private 
> voting discussions we will need a new private mailing list, such as 
> [conference-workshops-private]. In the past the LOC has set up that 
> private mailing list and not OSGeo (because the members of that list 
> will change each year).  Make sense??
> 
> For example, a great use of the existing [conference-workshops] list 
> would be to send the extension reminder out on it.
> 
> -jeff
> 
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