[Cbr2021] Hybrid conference versus online only justification

[James Iseppi]

Hi Rob,

While I didn’t attend the entire meeting, from what I gathered the majority of the people attending wanted to do a Hybrid conference, while their were only two (yourself included) that said that we should not. From that perspective, I think we as the presumptive team need some convincing that what LA and yourself are proposing (an online only event) is something we want to run.

While I appreciate that LA have to manage the risks around losing money from a failed conference (no matter the format), I think we need some actual arguments that an online conference is easier, less resource intensive, more likely to succeed, etc when compared to a F2F/Hybrid event. Whatever the LCA2021 team are able to share about what they did, how well it worked, the challenges they faced, the number of people hours it took to deliver, etc before our meeting on Wednesday would be very helpful in informing our understanding of what an online only event entails and would allow us to more reasonably respond to the question being posed.

Thanks
James

> On 22 Feb 2021, at 20:11, Rob Bolin via CBR2021 <cbr2021 at lists.linux.org.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Miles, Neill and I have just met with Sae Ra and Joel on our way forward.  Sae Ra has requested that the team put forward, in writing, some good reasons why we should go ahead with a hybrid model, to be forwarded to LA.
> 
> To be honest, I can't really think of any good reasons why we should (as I expressed in our meeting), so can I ask those that expressed a preference for Hybrid over online-only please provide a couple of paragraphs why we should go ahead with the Hybrid model.
> 
> Sorry to be brutally frank, but if I don't get any responses, the LA will make their decision based on available information which, most likely, will be to go ahead with an online only.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Rob
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