[OSGeo Oceania] Fiji's - Letter of Intent - FOSS4G SotM Pasifika 2020

[John Bryant]

Thanks Rob, that sounds like a great program! I'd love to learn more about
it and how LCA operates, we could surely learn a lot.

On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 at 11:41, Robert Coup <robert.coup at koordinates.com>
wrote:

> Chiming in here,
>
> I agree with Adam's comments about continuity. I think the success of our
>> conferences will be greater when we have a proportion of each year who stay
>> on to support the incoming conference committee.
>
>
> Linux.conf.au have solved this continuity problem with their "ghosts"
> programme. Effectively, a group of organisers from previous LCA conferences
> are flown into town over a weekend ~9 months before the conference, tour
> the venues and provide an intense "brain dump" of advice, feedback, and
> experience so the new organising team are not re-learning the same things
> over again. Everything is on topic, from IT, catering, social programmes,
> media coverage, community "personalities", talk/speaker selection, venues,
> sponsors, marketing, conduct, wifi, websites, budgets — absolutely
> anything, including topics & discussions that aren't suitable for public
> mailing lists.
>
> Importantly the new organisers build valuable direct contacts with their
> opposite numbers from previous years. The goal isn't to *tell*
> the organisers how to do things — it's their conference and they decide
> what's important, but more to bootstrap them so they can focus on what will
> make their conference different and what they really want to change from
> previous years while re-using as much past experience as they want to.
>
> The costs of Ghosts are factored into the conference budget, but it's a
> highly successful approach that has worked well for many years for LCA. If
> anyone wants to talk to the LCA Ghosts coordinators about the mechanics of
> it I can introduce you.
>
> Rob :)
>
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