On 18/05/16 09:38, Steven Sykes wrote:
Then I'll be seeing about finding a venue. UC seems a natural choice
as it's close to public transport, various accommodation and other
facilities - its downside is somewhere to put about 650 people in a
single room for key note speakers etc (although there is streaming).
I'll also be looking at the possibility of the Convention Centre. In
either case I'm looking into meeting with people to see about using
either facility.
Steven,
As an aside, where and how can you tell what seating size any of the
lecture theatres are at UoC?
"The first thing to think about is your team. At the BoF, it was
strongly suggested that you need around five to six people for a good
bid. I've seen conferences run with fewer people than that, but it is
risky. LCA is a large and complicated event these days, and with a
planning horizon of around two years, you need to be prepared for there
to be a fair bit of churn in your core organizing team. Some people will
move away, or change jobs. Others might have a new child and discover
they're much too busy for a conference as well. So, remember when you're
putting that initial team together to pack in some extra folks in order
to handle the churn. Most Australian capital cities have former LCA
organizers in them these days as well (we call them ghosts in the Linux
Australia community). You should try to find one or two of these people
to be involved as well. For example, the Canberra bid committee
currently stands at 14 people, seven or whom have been on a LCA core
team before, 3 of whom have served on Linux Australia's national
committee, and at least two of whom have run their local Linux User's
Group at some point in the past. " - Michael Still
(http://www.stillhq.com/conference/lca2013/bid/000003.html)
And very much looking forward to linux.conf.au 2017 in Hobart.
https://hobart.lca2017.org
Andrew
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