I like this approach, I would quite like to run one on the Gold Coast at some point, but apart from being a volunteer at Brisbane I have no experience running an LCA, and I lack the support network here on the Coast to help me (at present - I'm working on this)<div>
<br></div><div>If you did a Sydney one with a more dispersed team (utilized videocon for getting some F2F time) I would be happy to nominate for the team as a remote. Having a dispersed team gives people like me some hands-on experience to put on my resume for a future bid. Hey we might even be able to get some people from other regional cities to join and get more LCAs out of the capital cities.</div>
<div><br>Heck - I started my Aussie life in Sydney so I consider myself a half-Sydneysider anyway :)</div><div><br></div><div>Steve<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Chris Neugebauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrisjrn@gmail.com" target="_blank">chrisjrn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I just posted this to IM, and raising it here for record:<br>
<br>
What if we just decide that LCA will run in Sydney[1] for 2014? Let's say<br>
at UNSW or USYD, either would work. Run the conference with a<br>
dispersed team or volunteers called from this list [2].<br>
<br>
We make the the explicit goal for 2014 to cut crap out of the<br>
conference. Make it attractive and manageable for bid teams to pick<br>
the conference back up again for 2015 onwards.<br>
<br>
For 2015 onwards, we start taking bids list we have in the past, but<br>
we'll have a conference that's smaller, leaner and easy to build upon.<br>
<br>
Or perhaps we'll discover that dispersed teams actually works<br>
reasonably well, and this can be continued upon.<br>
<br>
--Chris<br>
<br>
[1] I say Sydney because it's reasonably central to everyone in<br>
Australia and NZ, and it has venues that can hold LCA. Melbourne<br>
could also work for the sake of this argument.<br>
<br>
[2] This seemed to work OK for PyCon AU 2010 & 2011, where two members<br>
of the org team were Sydney-based and the other two were<br>
Melbourne-based. Having feet on the ground to deal with venue was<br>
important, but did not appear to be integral to the organisation of<br>
the conf to have everyone present to meet face-to-face at all times.<br>
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:55 PM, John Ferlito <<a href="mailto:johnf@inodes.org">johnf@inodes.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> I think that a lot of us think that LCA is too hard and that's why<br>
> nobody is putting there hand up any more. So I'd like to see a lot of<br>
> discussion around doing LCA smarter rather than better. For example<br>
> should we<br>
><br>
> * Hold it in the same city every year?<br>
> * Involve paid professionals?<br>
> * Make it a three day conference without miniconfs<br>
> * Drop all the extra curricular activities like dinner, PDNS, speakers<br>
> dinnet etc<br>
> * Have no schwag<br>
> * Make accommodation the attendees problem<br>
><br>
> There are lots of things we could do to change the nature of the<br>
> conference that would make it less of a burden to organise. I'm not<br>
> saying all of the things above are good ideas but they are worth<br>
> thinking about.<br>
><br>
> We have quite a lot of people now running quite successful 2 day<br>
> conferences.<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> John<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> John<br>
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