[Board] Last call before announcement regarding FOSS4G 2012 (was: Draft announcement regarding FOSS4G 2012)

[Daniel Morissette]

Okay, since it seems that all is left is to execute and we've been 
waiting for too long already, then unless I hear objections in the next 
few hours, I will take the announcement text including Cameron's 
modifications and:

1- Send to discuss list, board list, conf committee list, foss4g2012 list

2- Publish a news item on osgeo.org 
(http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/submit_news.html)

3- Replace http://2012.foss4g.org/ with a mini-site with a copy of this 
announcement (I can take care of this once we have the announcement)

BTW, the mini-site is ready with the updated text, you can preview it at 
http://2012test.foss4g.org/


Daniel


On 12-07-24 5:24 PM, Peter Batty wrote:
> +1 from me, though that's implicit maybe :). Cameron had some
> suggestions and I'm fine with those if we want to incorporate. I'm
> traveling and pretty swamped today and tomorrow, if anyone else wants to
> make final tweaks feel free.
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Daniel Morissette
> <dmorissette at mapgears.com <mailto:dmorissette at mapgears.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Peter, and all,
>
>     Can we go ahead and publish this? It's been 14 days already since
>     the Beijing LOC sent their cancellation email.
>
>     We got +1's from Daniel, MPG, Jo, Mark and Arnulf. Do we need votes
>     from everyone?
>
>     Daniel
>
>
>
>
>     On 12-07-18 5:24 PM, Peter Batty wrote:
>
>         Hi all, as discussed at the board meeting last week, here is a draft
>         announcement from the board about FOSS4G 2012. All feedback
>         welcome. One
>         specific question: are there other "regional FOSS4Gs" we should
>         mention?
>
>         We agreed we should aim to get an announcement out this week if
>         possible.
>
>         Cheers,
>               Peter.
>
>         It was announced last week by the local organizing committee
>         that the
>         FOSS4G 2012 conference that was scheduled to be held in September in
>         Beijing has been canceled. The OSGeo board was disappointed to
>         hear this
>         of course. We have known for some time, as has anyone who
>         follows the
>         OSGeo conference or board public mailing lists, that the local
>         committee
>         was facing various challenges. But we wanted to give the local
>         team the
>         maximum chance to try to pull together an event.
>
>         FOSS4G has been successful being a truly global conference, taking a
>         major event around the world with most of the work done by local
>         volunteers. We've had great success with this approach, with
>         excellent
>         events in cities including Sydney and Cape Town. But this
>         approach has
>         its risks too, and we'll look carefully at what we can learn
>         from this
>         year to mitigate these risks in future.
>
>         But FOSS4G remains strong. The 2011 event in Denver was the
>         largest yet,
>         with 900 people from 42 countries and great reviews from
>         attendees. And
>         plans for FOSS4G 2013 in Nottingham are already very advanced,
>         we have a
>         very strong team organizing that and are looking forward to a great
>         event there.
>
>         FOSS4G has also evolved into multiple regional events in
>         addition to the
>         global one. We have had multiple successful regional FOSS4G events
>         already this year: one for North America in Washington DC and
>         one for
>         Central and Eastern Europe in Prague. FOSS4G Japan will take
>         place in
>         November.
>
>         OSGeo normally presents the Sol Katz award at the annual FOSS4G
>         conference, to recognize an individual as a leader in the geospatial
>         open source community. The Sol Katz award will still be made
>         this year,
>         but it is still to be determined how, when and where the
>         presentation
>         will take place. Also the OSGeo Annual General Meeting will be
>         rescheduled in due course.
>
>
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