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<p>Hi Michael,</p>
<p>That is a good suggestion. I believe the your proposed text
should go into the FOSS4G RFP document [1]. I'm not tackling this
document myself, but happy to see someone else take it on.</p>
<p>[1]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2018_Bid_Process#RFP_Documents">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2018_Bid_Process#RFP_Documents</a>
(source in subversion)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/12/2016 12:28 AM, Michael Terner
wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I
would also like to suggest one further minor refinement to item
#1 of "FOSS4G selection" based on the 2017 competition (as the
situation did not arise with the 2018 competition generating
only one proposal). We would respectfully suggest that the final
Proposals <u>not</u> be posted directly to the Conference Dev
list by the proposing cities, but rather to an intermediary, who
would then post them publicly after the global deadline has
passed. In the 2017 competition there was a gap of >8 hours
between when the first proposal was submitted, and the last. And
this gap provides the late submitters an opportunity to look at
the earlier submittals before submitting. I don't suggest that
anything untoward happened in 2017, but the "public posting"
process accommodates an opportunity for this to happen and is
very easily remedied. A simple sentence added to #1 would cover
this: "Final FOSS4G proposals will be emailed by the proposing
cities to an intermediary, named by Conference Dev, before the
deadline; and the intermediary will post them publicly the day
following the deadline."</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Good
luck with the deliberations and voting...</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">MT</div>
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Cameron Shorter
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