[H-GEN] Re: Summary of LCA bid talk 21/04/07

[Russell Stuart]

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 14:44 +1000, Marco Ostini wrote:
> > First of all apologies.  I didn't arrange for the
> > normal notification to be sent out for this talk,
> > and as a consequence it came as a surprise to some.
> 
> Hmmmm. it certainly was a surprise to me. I do wish I was notified.

Yes, well.  Partially my fault I guess as I see I
didn't forward the summary to you.  Sorry again.
On the other hand the summary was posted to 
general at lists.humbug.org.au, and had you been on 
there you would of got it.

> How exactly are we going to go about this? I've already volunteered to be 
> part of the team. I have allocated a month's worth of leave for LCA 2009 so 
> that I can work on it full time. Could you please add me to the list of 
> volunteers ?

Roughly how it will proceed:

a) I will publish a list of jobs & their descriptions.
   I have since decided to use the LCA HOWTO to generate
   the list.

b) I will ask people to nominate which jobs from the 
   list they would like to volunteer for.  They can 
   nominate any number.  (Note: this question is a
   'white lie'.  See last paragraph.)

c) On 19/May, we will decide how to proceed.

   - If we end up with less than some minimum number of
     volunteers then the bid will not proceed.  I have
     not decided what a feasible minimum would be.  If
     this looks like happening we will discuss on the 
     night.

   - If we end up less volunteers than the number of jobs
     then everyone gets accepted on the spot.  This is 
     the expected and best outcome.  Jobs won't be 
     allocated until after we win the bid.

   - If we end up with more people than jobs than there
     will have to be an election process on the night.
     If you look at the LCA HOWTO (its on the Wiki under
     "bid documents") there are a _lot_ of  tasks, so this 
     is the least likely outcome.

This is the fairest way I can think of.  The only nit is 
that although you get to nominate jobs you would like to
do you are really nominating to be on the committee.  In
the end who knows how we will carve up the mammoth.