[LGM] LGM 2020 Candidates and Discussion

[Pathum Egodawatta]

Hi all!  I'm Pathum from the Sri Lankan team now bidding for LGM 2021.

> This idea of waiting until October or so is I feel the mistake that keeps
getting made. Ideally, we should try to ensure that proposers have
fully-developed proposals by the time of LGM 2019, so that meaningful
discussion (and encouragement) can take place, with as many voices as we
can muster to help the process. The decision for 2020 should be very firm
by the end of LGM 2019, and for 2021 it should be nearly so.

I agree with Greg on this. Specially given the open and participatory
nature of LGM decision making it is important to get the ball rolling very
soon. We have the most comprehensive proposal that we can make with what we
know and have confirmed so far.

Sri Lanka will be a deviation from usual Europe-North America venue cycle
of LGM. If we can get a preliminary 'Yes' from the teams the local team can
lockdown certain details and move forward with preparing a much detailed
proposal by LGM 2019.

Sadly non of the prospective-2021-local-team is able to attend LGM 2019.
However we can join for a call remotely and answer any specific issues when
you discuss the proposals. I intend to attend LGM 2020.

On another note; I think we can streamline the proposal and approval
process. I think it is good to put some thought into how we can make the
proposal process more efficient and easy for both prospective local teams
and people on the list to review and contribute. Since LGM already operate
an GitHub org we can setup a new repo for proposals and use the issues to
track status of the proposals. We can link to relevant email threads and
IRC logs from there. Maybe this is something to discuss at the LGM this
year.

Regards,
_pe

on mobile


On Sat, 23 Feb 2019, 20:11 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com wrote:

> On 2/22/19 10:10 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> > On Fri, 2019-02-22 at 10:23 -0600, Frank Trampe wrote:
> >>  I've checked back, and the Rennes tem can
> >> still do 2020, but the Colombo team would now prefer 2021 given the
> >> lack of advance commitment for 2020.
> >
> > I'd like to see us decide 2021 and 2022 at LGM itself, with the
> > respective teams present. If that doesn't work for 2020 i can
> > understand it, but if we can decide there that would be best.
> >
> > I’ve not been active myself in the past year for personal reasons, so
> > i’m for sure not in a position to blame anyone else for being inactive,
> > and in any case the meeting itself is when there's most energy. But
> > maybe we do need (collectively) to get better at being responsive
> > between meetings. Wonder if it'd be worth having a mini-summit half-way
> > through, October or November?
>
> This idea of waiting until October or so is I feel the mistake that keeps
> getting made. Ideally, we should try to ensure that proposers have
> fully-developed proposals by the time of LGM 2019, so that meaningful
> discussion (and encouragement) can take place, with as many voices as we
> can muster to help the process. The decision for 2020 should be very firm
> by the end of LGM 2019, and for 2021 it should be nearly so.
>
> What this means is that perhaps by April of this year (at a time when we
> are "coasting into" LGM 2019) efforts should be made to get the proposers
> for 2020 and 2021 to firm up and flesh out their proposals, so that by the
> end of May they have the important questions already answered.
>
> Greg
>
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