[Australia] Conf Bid

[Cameron Shorter]

Worth mentioning, the Sydney Convention and Visitors Bureau boast a 74% 
win rate for their bids. (This impressed the socks off me).
So we should be specific about our desire for an '09 bid over '08, 
otherwise we might win despite ourselves.

I expect to be talking to Peter Woodgate from Spatial CRC today. I'll 
mention the FOSS4G conference to him.
What sort of backing should we be asking for?

Tim Bowden wrote:
> 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
>
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