[OSGeo-Conf] OSGeo/FOSS4G '07 Location

[Jeremy Morley]

Part of the reason for silence from this direction is that I think we'd
be interested in hosting the meeting at UCL in London at some point, so
it seemed better to let the RFP emerge without input from us and then to
bid!  We've hosted a couple of the EOGEO meetings in the past.

I'm sorry we've not been involved in this year's meeting - we have an
OGC GEOSS demo coming up the following week in India and so we've been
rather focussed on that.

Jeremy Morley


Arnulf Christl wrote:
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> Markus Neteler wrote:
>>> On 8/17/06, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
>>>> First I am not sure if all of the isc2006 members have been moved over
>>>> to this list yet (has that been done?).
>>>
>>> Yes. At least I had made available all member email adresses.
>>>
>>>> I am also wondering how we should continue, in terms of the RFP idea 
>>>> for
>>>> the next conference.  We're obviously really close to FOSS4G2006 now.
>>>> Do we maybe plan to announce the RFP at the conference?  Would that be
>>>> realistic?
>>>
>>> Not sure if realistic, but it sounds very good to me.
>>
>> Jeff,
>>
>> I think announcing the RFP at the conference is pretty much the latest
>> we can wait.  It would have been better to be able to announce the next
>> venue at the conference.
>>
>> I think it would be very helpful to have a definite Chair for the
>> conference project (post FOSS4G 2006) to lead preparation of an RFP,
>> and related activities.  Is there anyone willing to step forward for 
>> this?
>> I imagine it would be better if this was not someone too directly 
>> involved
>> in the FOSS4G conference as I imagine they are seriously overworked 
>> already.
>>
>> I would add that this Chair position need not be long term, but at least
>> someone to get us through the RFP and selection steps for the 2007 
>> conference.
>>
>> Volunteers?
> 
> And a great silence ensued.
> 
>> Best regards,
> 
> Can you please specify to what state the "RFP idea" has already been 
> developed? I do not want to jeopardize any activities already under way 
> but is that a request for proposal to local groups who want to organize 
> the conference? That could be done easily and will just need a seven 
> minute intro slot during the welcome session of the FOSS4G and a 
> reminder at the end. Applicants can come to the OSGeo booth for further 
> information. Then they should write to this list advertising their 
> premises, assets and motivation. Not a big deal, am I missing anything?
> 
> I dimly remember that the pre-open conference cabal had suggested 
> Refractions / Vancouver as venue of the FOSSGeo '07 conference back in 
> '05. Applicants would be sorted out in the order of application and 
> appropriateness, this can be done via this list.
> 
> Best regards,
> Arnulf.
> 
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