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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=FI link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Cameron and others,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Ok, I just need to answer to some specific questions and I don’t want too much ”read-between-the-lines”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Profit/money and open source software? As far as I understood Paul Ramsey’s keynote in FOSS4G: there is no money in OSS ;-) BTW, you can’t make any money in McDonald’s here in Finland. All the positions are fulfilled by ex-Nokia Symbian / Meego developers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Rgs,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Pekka<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FI'>---- Pekka Sarkola – <a href="mailto:pekka.sarkola@gispo.fi">pekka.sarkola@gispo.fi</a> – <a href="http://www.gispo.fi">www.gispo.fi</a> ----<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:FI'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:FI'> Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 26. maaliskuuta 2012 23:29<br><b>To:</b> conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org; Pekka Sarkola<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSGeo-Conf] About funding of FOSS4G<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Pekka,<br>My advice, (as a Conf committee member, and past foss4g chair) is to note in your response that you wish to apply profit sharing locally, and how you wish that profit sharing split. This will be assessed alongside other proposals. A modest amount of money saved for worthy osgeo related activities might be considered favourably.<br><br>Note: If you are looking to run foss4g for the profit, then I recommend you look elsewhere to earn money. You will likely get a much greater return on invested time by flipping hamburgers at McDonalds.<br><br>On 26/03/12 23:45, Pekka Sarkola wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi folks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I have studied carefully FOSS4G conference RFP documentation, but I just need some clarifications:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>In page 6: OSGeo will take on financial responsibility. This very good deal. However, this “bridge funding” needs some clarification. I understand that this means that OSGeo will fund local organization committee expenses from September 2012 until LOC will get some money from participants / sponsors etc. Right?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Will OSGeo took all revenue or could it be that some part of “possible” revenue will stay in the country? Like to establish Local Chapter?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Will OSGeo and LOC make legal agreement about conference? </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Pekka</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:FI'>--</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:FI'>Pekka Sarkola</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:FI'><a href="mailto:pekka.sarkola@gispo.fi">pekka.sarkola@gispo.fi</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:FI'>Gispo Oy</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:FI'>GSM +358 40 725 2042</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:FI'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:FI'><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Conference_dev mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:FI'><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Cameron Shorter<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Geospatial Solutions Manager<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Think Globally, Fix Locally<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://www.lisasoft.com">http://www.lisasoft.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre></div></body></html>