[Australia] Conf Bid

[Cameron Shorter]

Bruce, after talking with Josh, I disagree.

The OSGeo conference is hosted in a different region of the world each year.
So if the conference is held in the Australasian region this year, 
Sydney won't get the conference in '09. (I've heard rumours that there 
will be a bid from somewhere in the Pacific).

By putting in a Sydney bid for this year, we will be planting the seed 
for '09.

Bruce.Bannerman at dpi.vic.gov.au wrote:
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> Tim,
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> I'm over-extended at the moment, so sorry, I won't be able to help 
> with the '08 bid.
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> IMO, it would be a disservice to ourselves and to OSGeo if we only put 
> in a half-hearted attempt for '08. We'll be wasting our time, the 
> conference organisers and the OSGeo reviewers. I'd prefer to see a 
> concerted effort for '09 instead.
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> I can't see us being able to do '08 justice.
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> Bruce
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> *Tim Bowden <tim.bowden at westnet.com.au>*
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> Should have gone to the list, not just Bruce!
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> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 09:04 +1000, Bruce.Bannerman at dpi.vic.gov.au wrote:
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> > Tim,
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> > I haven't been involved in one of these types of events before.
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> > I may be able to help with '09, but not '08.
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> > I'd like to get a better understanding of what would be involved
> > before committing though.
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> > Bruce
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> '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.
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> 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.
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> We will look at rolling over to an '09 conf committee after the '08 bid
> is in.
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> Regards,
> Tim
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