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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Steven,<br>
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In my opinion, the small delay that David requested is very
reasonable given the time remaining before fall 2017.<br>
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For these cities, their attention was rightly focused on NA 2016.
And they have become the short list out of a long list of other
strong contenders for good reason. It would be a shame to lose
them.<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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On 27/07/15 16:09, Steven Feldman wrote:<br>
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<div>We've already pushed the timeline back a bit. Everyone has
been asking for us to make decisions earlier to give LOCs more
time to book venues etc. it would be unfair to people who've
worked to current schedule if we changed so late. </div>
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<div>I suggest that NC and PA get a LoI in within current
deadlines, they can always withdraw after you make a decision
for 2016 event<br>
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<div>Steven</div>
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On 27 Jul 2015, at 19:58, David William Bitner <<a
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<div>We are very closely approaching making a decision on
the location for the 2016 FOSS4G North America event. As
many of you may have noticed, we have limited our choices
to Raleigh, NC, and Philadelphia, PA. We are now at the
point in the process where we are trying to finalize
contract negotiations with the venues before we are able
to announce the 2016 location. We are hoping to be able to
complete this process by August 7th barring any
significant issues arising but this may well take until
the 14th.</div>
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<div>We have been thrilled by the overwhelming excitement
that we have seen from both the Raleigh and the Philly
communities in bringing the North America event to their
communities and would like to make sure that they have the
ability to come together to put together an LOI should
they wish for the International event in 2017.</div>
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<div>The FOSS4G North America selection committee would like
to ask that the date for LOI's for the 2017 international
event be pushed back to August 21st in order that either
city can have time to create an LOI in the event that they
are not selected for the 2016 NA event.</div>
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<div>We are extremely excited to have such a strong group of
candidates for all these events! Please feel free to ask
Andrew Ross or myself if you have any questions regarding
the FOSS4GNA process.</div>
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<div>Sincerely,</div>
<div><br>
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<div>David (OSGeo Conference Committee and FOSS4GNA
Selection Committee member)</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:09 AM,
Eli Adam <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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OSGeo Conference Committee is happy to announce the call
for<br>
hosting the FOSS4G 2017 event. Year after year, building
on the<br>
success of previous conferences, excitement builds for
the next<br>
FOSS4G! This year is no different with much excitement
for Seoul,<br>
South Korea (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://2015.foss4g.org/" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank">http://2015.foss4g.org/</a>). OSGeo
again plans to make the<br>
2017 event the geospatial conference of the year. Please
see the<br>
following page for the actual request for proposals
document, as well<br>
as upcoming important dates:<br>
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If you have any questions regarding the 2017 call for
hosting, feel<br>
free to send an email to the conference-dev mailing list
(subscribe at<br>
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Thank you.<br>
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