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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(And a big congrats/thanks to Paul and the committee for working to get all the bids in and processed and picking a winner!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>_mpg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> conference_dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:conference_dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Batty<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 18, 2012 9:09 AM<br><b>To:</b> pekka.sarkola@gispo.fi<br><b>Cc:</b> conference; board@osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2013 RFP Result<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Hi, I would like to reiterate Paul's sentiments and congratulate both teams on excellent bids, it was a tough decision for the committee to make. With the Denver bid we weren't selected first time round either, but we made it at the second attempt, so I do encourage the Finnish team to bid again in future. And congratulations to the UK team, I look forward to a FOSS4G in my home country :).<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'> Peter.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Pekka Sarkola <<a href="mailto:pekka.sarkola@gispo.fi" target="_blank">pekka.sarkola@gispo.fi</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Folks,<br><br>Well, it has been looooong morning here in Helsinki ;-)<br><br>Thanks for everybody! Just now it's difficult to be good looser. Maybe<br>someday I will learn to be.<br><br>Rgs,<br><br>Pekka<br>ps. Can't wait cheaper beers in Nottingham: in Finland Open Source events<br>have free beers...<br><br>---- Pekka Sarkola – <a href="mailto:pekka.sarkola@gispo.fi">pekka.sarkola@gispo.fi</a> – <a href="http://www.gispo.fi" target="_blank">www.gispo.fi</a> ----<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:conference_dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">conference_dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:conference_dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">conference_dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey<br>Sent: 18. kesäkuuta 2012 17:12<br>To: conference; OSGeo Discussions<br>Cc: <a href="mailto:board@osgeo.org">board@osgeo.org</a>; Pekka Sarkola<br>Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2013 RFP Result<br><br>Conference Committee, Bidders,<br><br>Good morning (PDT). The results have been tabulated, and every member of the<br>committee has voted (yay).<br><br>Many thanks to both teams for bidding. Many of the members commented on the<br>difficulty in selecting a bid, given the quality and attention to detail in<br>both bids.<br><br>The voting results are<br><br>Nottingham 8<br>Helsinki 2<br><br>So, FOSS4G 2013 will be in Nottingham, UK.<br><br>To the Nottingham team:<br><br>- The sooner you can carve your dates into stone, the better for promotion<br>and planning<br>- Remember that you will have to submit a budget to the Board for approval,<br>and the "Official, Really for Reals Acceptance" of your bid is contingent on<br>the Board formally accepting your budget and bid.<br>Let's move that process forward briskly.<br><br>To the Helsinki team:<br><br>- You had a great bid and a wonderful venue and plan, I hope you'll consider<br>bringing your preparations and research to hosting an EU Regional event for<br>2014.<br><br>Thanks again to everyone,<br><br>Paul,<br>your 2013 RFP bid guy<br>_______________________________________________<br>Conference_dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Conference_dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>