I will volenteer to help.

Call me conservative, but I would like to see a very successful small gathering that leaves us all wanting more (option1) rather than a large event that burns out the organisers, pauper the participants and satisfies no-one.

I guess I am of the walk before you run camp.

KJ

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Neal [mailto:Donald.Neal@telecom.co.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2002 3:06 p.m.
To: asjl@lionra.net.nz
Cc: nznog@list.waikato.ac.nz
Subject: NZNOG Conference Organisation [was RE:NZNOG Conference 2002:
Feedback So Far]

>>> "Andy Linton" <asjl@lionra.net.nz> 01/14/02 01:44 >>>
[...]
>> So far, what feedback to the list there has been on format suggests
>> that we're looking for a two-day residential event. If that is some
sort
>> of consensus, then I agree that it's time to think about content,
but
>> I'd like a more general organising group rather than merely a
program
>> committee, since decisions do need to be made about things like the
>> venue and  the price. Right now, I'd like more feedback to allow us
to
>> judge whether that is indeed a consensus view.

>Well if that's the consensus view that what we want is a two-day
>residential event and given Roger de Salis's insights into organising

>something of this scale for Uniforum then we'll be lucky to get it
running
>until the end of the year.

>If that's the case why don't we all agree to go to the Uniforum
conference
>in July - they've already done the work setting all that up. If enough
of
>us agree to go, we can arrange with them to provide a separate room to
run
>a Network stream in and piggy back on everything they've already
>organised. That way we get to focus on content.

Fair enough. I think we have from here four options.

1/ Organise something small. I'm not hearing any clear enthusiasm for
that.

2/ Seek to have a stand-alone event organised by somebody else. The
University of Waikato have made a credible offer to do this. They have
experience of event organisation and have a venue which is likely to be
suitable. We could accept that offer, or

3/ it may be possible to persuade one of the companies which have
offered to assist with organisation to take on a primary role in that
work. My impression is that NANOG rotate organisational work among a
variety of corporate "hosts" as their gatherings move to different North
American centres.

4/ Run an event within a larger event. In practice for this year this
would mean the UniForum NZ conference. This is scheduled (with a final
choice of hotel pending) to take place in Auckland in early to mid July.
(The school holidays run 29 June - 14 July.) The convenor has suggested
that NZNOG run a stream over a Thursday and Friday, with format and room
requirements negotiable. The main conference seems likely to run
Thursday - Sunday. There would be an option for people to register only
for the Thursday and Friday.

In any case, we would be aiming to keep under the sort of cost figure
Roger De Salis has mentioned.

I believe we could now proceed by accepting one of options 1, 2 or 4
and at the same time appoint a group of people to liaise with others
involved and to coordinate a programme. Or we could appoint a group and
leave the choice among options 2, 3 and 4 to them. Thoughts?
Volunteers?

- Donald Neal

This is not a private communication.

--
Donald Neal
Special Operations
Network Delivery
Telecom New Zealand Ltd

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