<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We're on it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We'll confer with the hotel and confirm with you ASAP tomorrow (and if there are any availability issues [unlikely], we'll get back to you with other opts). We're assuming hotel wifi will be adequate.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Let us know if there's any need for any members of the BLOC team to be around for the start of the meeting. We'd be happy to brief if useful, although I'm sure you have a full agenda already.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">MT</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Helena Mitasova <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">hmitaso@ncsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Michael,<div><br></div><div>thanks for quick response - the $500 cost sounds reasonable and we can use the arrangement that Michael Smith has suggested for covering  this as well. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you, Helena</div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On Aug 8, 2017, at 5:45 PM, Michael Terner <<a href="mailto:mgt@appgeo.com" target="_blank">mgt@appgeo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-1801612739496049504Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Yes, we can do this (assuming the hotel has availability which I think it does).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We do not have access to any complimentary rooms on Monday (unfortunately).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We set up a similar room for LocationTech on the Tuesday of the conference, and the cost was $500.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Would you like us to reserve this? For wifi, do you need a hard wire, or will hotel wifi be acceptable?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">What we've done for a couple of other expenses (e.g., the Sponsor Breakfast that Maria has organized) is instead of seeking "cash", Michael Smith has approved simply reducing our obligation to repay our $70k advance (e.g., if we paid $500 for your room, the advance repayment would be $69.5k). So you know, and in case it matters, conference finances look to be strong and we are highly optimistic we will return a surplus to OSGeo (above and beyond re-paying the advance).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">If the cost is prohibitive, I can offer you free use of my company's conference room which has a very nice video feed. However, my office is about 1 mile from the venue.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Please let us know ASAP and we'll make the arrangements.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">MT</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Helena Mitasova <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hmitaso@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">hmitaso@ncsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Guido,</div><div><br></div><div>would it be possible for the LOC to reserve a meeting room for ~ 10 people with internet connection for the OSGeo Board of directors f<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:inherit;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">ace-to-face meeting on </span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:inherit;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Monday August 14, at 18:00pm for 3-4 hours (or more).</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:inherit;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Conference hotel would be the best, but a place somewhere close would also work. </span></div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div>Thank you,</div><div><br></div><div>Helena</div></div><div><br></div><br><div>
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