<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">An excellent suggestion Till, can all bidders please take note.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">______<br class="">Steven<br class=""><br class=""></span>
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 26 Aug 2015, at 13:43, <a href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de" class="">till.adams@fossgis.de</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hi Conference-List,<br class=""><br class="">just one thought for the next round which came to my mind (because I recently did this for Bonn). Might it be useful, if the bidding LOC's have to include kind of risk analysis and also,<br class="">whether they need a backing of OSGeo and also a rough estimation of what amount? If we get this done in the bidding process, this is a (+/-) clear fact and teams can concentrate on their conference ;-)<br class=""><br class="">I did our analysis based on the terms and conditions of the contractors when we have to pay what in advance and how much of this is gone in case of full cancellation.<br class="">I think this is accessible information the teams should get from their CC's, caterer and PCO's.<br class="">Maybe too late for this year, so might be just an idea for the future. Example in SVN, as mentioned yesterday. You may pass this to the bidding teams, if wanted.<br class=""><br class="">Another idea for future is, maybe it's worth thinking of a more structured template for the proposal. If the proposals are more equal, they might be easier to review and evaluate (and nobody spends money in layout-things).<br class=""><br class="">My 2+2 cents,<br class=""><br class="">Till<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Am 2015-08-26 14:21, schrieb Michael Gerlek:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">All seventeen members submitted votes, including one abstention.<br class=""><br class="">Each of the three cities having received two or more votes, all will<br class="">advance to the next round!<br class=""><br class="">Congratulations and good luck to all the organizing committees.<br class=""><br class="">-mpg<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Conference_dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Conference_dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>