[Australia] Conf Bid

[Tim Bowden]

Should have gone to the list, not just Bruce!

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 09:04 +1000, Bruce.Bannerman at dpi.vic.gov.au wrote:
> 
> Tim, 
> 
> I haven't been involved in one of these types of events before. 
> 
> I may be able to help with '09, but not '08. 
> 
> I'd like to get a better understanding of what would be involved
> before committing though. 
> 
> Bruce 

'08 shouldn't be a problem.  We're not putting too much into that one.
'09 will be the one we are wanting to go full tilt on.  As far as leg
work goes, we will take on as much as we can, though we will use the
services of Sydney Convention and Visitors Bureau to help put our bid
together (a free service from the NSW Govt to help win large int'l
conf's for Sydney), and a conf organising co. that can do much of the
legwork.  We will have a job and a half to select a suitable conf
organiser though, as the nature of FOSS4G (in keeping with its open
source community feel) is probably a little different to many confs.  We
won't have the option of doing it all with local volunteer resources
(such as linux.conf.au does) as we just don't have the numbers on the
ground.  I'm not sure how we will balance things out, but that's part of
the fun.

At this stage would you (or anybody else, but be quick,as the bids close
on Friday) like to be a nominal part of the '08 organising committee (do
we have such a thing yet?) on the understanding that we won't have much
to do apart from "amend & approve" the '08 bid docs that are generated
for us by Sydney Convention and Visitors Bureau?  In all fairness,
Cameron and I have given them a reasonable amount of detail as to what
we think we want (in line with concom's guidelines), and they do
understand we are primarily aiming at '09.

We will look at rolling over to an '09 conf committee after the '08 bid
is in.

Regards,
Tim