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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Peter,<br>
Looks pretty good. I'd be inclined to list more regional
conferences, or no regional conferences, to avoid offending
people.<br>
Suggestions below which you can accept or not as you see fit.<br>
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On 19/07/12 07:24, Peter Batty wrote:<br>
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type="cite">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?
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<div>We agreed we should aim to get an announcement out this week
if possible.
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div> Peter.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>But FOSS4G remains strong.</div>
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Suggest reword above line as: <br>
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But despite this setback, the FOSS4G event has continued to expand
around the globe this year:<br>
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<div> The 2011 </div>
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global FOSS4G<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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... as well as many regional geospatial conferences now including a
strong OSGeo or FOSS4G steam.<br>
[FYI: More events listed here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_History">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_History</a> ]<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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