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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear board, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Where is the cap on registration fees for FOSS4G? You have closed open source to me with these steep registration fees. You have to change this. A few years ago I could hardly convince my departmental management to pay for registration.
Now it is impossible! Please open up the conference again. Open open source! Those who cannot organize a conference below $500 should not be allowed to organize. Scale down. No fancy stuff. Back to the basics! Back to the core!
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<p class="MsoNormal">With kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Luc Boerboom<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr. Ir. Luc Boerboom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Assist. Prof Spatial Planning and Decision Support Systems and Infrastructures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-information Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC),
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.itc.nl/">http://www.itc.nl/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Twente,
<a href="http://www.utwente.nl/">http://www.utwente.nl/</a> <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">E: <a href="mailto:l.g.j.boerboom@utwente.nl">
l.g.j.boerboom@utwente.nl</a><br>
T: +31 (0)53 487 42 47 or +31 (0)53 487 44 44<br>
Postal address<br>
PO Box 217<br>
7500 AE Enschede<br>
The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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