Fwd: [Linux-aus] LCA2014 update
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Charles Gregory
Aug 28, 2012, 2:33:27 AM8/28/12
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As mentioned by Chris at TT lunch today ...
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From: James Polley <jamez...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:27 PM
Subject: [Linux-aus] LCA2014 update
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Back in April, we announced[1] the call for bids from parties interested in hosting LCA 2014. According to the timeline posted then, we should now be in the final stages of meeting with bid teams and visiting the proposed venus, ready to make a decision in the next few weeks.
This task turns out to be trivially simple, because to date we have not received any bids. Several teams and individuals have expressed an interest, but the number of bids received is zero.
The Council is extremely interested in getting feedback from you, the community, about what this means for LCA2014.
When CALU was held back in 1999, it was the only such conference serving the nascent open source community in the region. 15 years later, this is no longer the case: we now have a whole list Wordcamp, Drupal Down Under, Pycon-AU, Barcamp, Joomla Day - and those are just the ones that run as Linux Australia subcommittees! There’s also OSDC, Pycons in NZ and Singapore, and there’s a Rubyconf scheduled for Melbourne next year. Not only do we have Linux user groups in most major cities, but http://opensource.meetup.com/cities/au/melbourne/ and http://opensource.meetup.com/cities/au/sydney/ and http://opensource.meetup.com/cities/au/brisbane/ list a dazzling array of meetings.
Maybe the community is spoiled for choice and doesn’t need Linux.conf.au to stay accessible any more? The idea of having the conference run by paid professionals rather than volunteers has been mooted in the past, but always rejected because the community clearly wanted LCA to remain accessible to as broad a segment of the community as possible. Maybe this has changed?
Maybe we should just give it a break and see if we get any bids for 2015?
As a community we need to ask ourselves an important question: does anyone here want to go to LCA in 2014? If you do and know some other people who do as well then now might be the time to put in a bid, or LCA2014 may just not happen.
The council is opening the bidding process for another three weeks. We encourage anyone thinking they’d like to be part of a bid process to use our mailing lists and wiki to collaborate - maybe a geographically dispersed team might be able to get a bid together.
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From: James Polley <jamez...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:27 PM
Subject: [Linux-aus] LCA2014 update
To: Linux Australia List <linu...@lists.linux.org.au>
Back in April, we announced[1] the call for bids from parties interested in hosting LCA 2014. According to the timeline posted then, we should now be in the final stages of meeting with bid teams and visiting the proposed venus, ready to make a decision in the next few weeks.
This task turns out to be trivially simple, because to date we have not received any bids. Several teams and individuals have expressed an interest, but the number of bids received is zero.
The Council is extremely interested in getting feedback from you, the community, about what this means for LCA2014.
When CALU was held back in 1999, it was the only such conference serving the nascent open source community in the region. 15 years later, this is no longer the case: we now have a whole list Wordcamp, Drupal Down Under, Pycon-AU, Barcamp, Joomla Day - and those are just the ones that run as Linux Australia subcommittees! There’s also OSDC, Pycons in NZ and Singapore, and there’s a Rubyconf scheduled for Melbourne next year. Not only do we have Linux user groups in most major cities, but http://opensource.meetup.com/cities/au/melbourne/ and http://opensource.meetup.com/cities/au/sydney/ and http://opensource.meetup.com/cities/au/brisbane/ list a dazzling array of meetings.
Maybe the community is spoiled for choice and doesn’t need Linux.conf.au to stay accessible any more? The idea of having the conference run by paid professionals rather than volunteers has been mooted in the past, but always rejected because the community clearly wanted LCA to remain accessible to as broad a segment of the community as possible. Maybe this has changed?
Maybe we should just give it a break and see if we get any bids for 2015?
As a community we need to ask ourselves an important question: does anyone here want to go to LCA in 2014? If you do and know some other people who do as well then now might be the time to put in a bid, or LCA2014 may just not happen.
The council is opening the bidding process for another three weeks. We encourage anyone thinking they’d like to be part of a bid process to use our mailing lists and wiki to collaborate - maybe a geographically dispersed team might be able to get a bid together.
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Chris Neugebauer
Aug 28, 2012, 2:35:07 AM8/28/12
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Charles Gregory <ch...@chuq.net> wrote:
> As mentioned by Chris at TT lunch today ...
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