[H-GEN] LCA 2010 Bid status update

[Russell Stuart]

Here is a status update for the LCA 2010:


Bid & Budget.

  I have tidied up the bid and submitted the new version to LA.
  I have also updated the budget we submitted for LCA 2009 
  using the actual figures from LCA 2008.  Donna Benjamin got
  the LCA 2008 figures for me.  Donna has been fantastic - every
  time I make a request she usually responds with 24 hours.

  You can find the current version of the Bid here:
  http://www.stuart.id.au/lcawiki/BidDocument/Bid

  The current version of the budget is here, but you have to log
  into the wiki to view it:
  http://www.stuart.id.au/lcawiki/Budget/Budget


Letters of Support.

  The "Letters of Support" was a success, in the end, even if it
  did take a lot of chasing.  The best part in the end possibly
  isn't the letters themselves.  It was that it force me to make
  personal contact with all of the open source businesses around
  town.

  You can find them here:
  http://www.stuart.id.au/lcawiki/BidDocument/LettersOfSupport



Speakers Dinner.

  You probably all remember that we all liked the "Customs 
  House" option.  I guess that wasn't surprising as it was also 
  the most expensive.  I had hoped to get the price down,
  because they offered 5 hours worth of unlimited drinking in
  the price - which I thought was too much.  So I asked them
  to quote for 2 hours.  There was a huge $10 reduction, which 
  I thought was small.  So for now I am still puzzling over 
  what we should do.  I am hoping the tour of the city that
  will accompany LA's evaluation visit will help.

  The ideas Brisbane Marketing came up for the speakers dinner 
  are here.  If you are interested, I suggest you check out
  out the web sites of the venues:
  http://www.stuart.id.au/lcawiki/Events/SpeakersDinner?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=080903-speakers-dinner-contact-details.txt
  

Linux Australia's evaluation visit.

  Stewart will be visiting us on the weekend of the humbug
  meeting on the 4/Oct.  I hope as many Bid committee members
  will turn up to that meeting as possible.  This includes
  those I have not seen recently:

    Elspthe,
    Marco,
    Shaun.

  Preliminary itinerary: 

    Meet at the Humbug Meeting at around 4PM.
    Move as a group over to QUT.
    Tour QUT.
    Dinner at some restaurant or other.
    Go back to Humbug, the disperse.

  That's Saturday's itinerary anyway.  Currently Brisbane 
  Marketing is trying to tempt Stewart with a day an on 
  the town, chaperoned  by one of the one of their fine
  looking female staff members.  If it happens, that will
  be on the Fri the 3rd of Oct, and Stewart will be shown
  all venues bar QUT.  If it doesn't happen we have to 
  visit them on the 4th, probably prior to the Humbug
  meeting.


I think that is it.  We won't know the outcome until after
Stewart visits, of course.  He has kindly offered to let
us amend our bid after he visits, although amendments are
restricted to a bullet point text email.