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<p>Dear Maria,</p>
<p>I am not wanting to do any separation here. But - in my eyes, as
long-term co-organisator of numerous regional FOSSGIS conferences
(with regularly up to 400-500 attendees), I can say that
organizing a global FOSS4G is a completely different game - in
sight of venue, size, cost-structure, number of events and much
more.</p>
<p>Just wanted to note that.</p>
<p>Till<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 23.01.2018 um 20:13 schrieb Maria
Antonia Brovelli:<br>
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<div>+1 for accepting the nomination of Gerald. I organise a
local low cost (less than 100 euro fee) conference with more
than 400 people and I can say that you learn a lot also from
these "small" conferences. </div>
<div>Best regards </div>
<div>Maria </div>
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<div dir="auto" style="font-size:88%; color:#364f67">Inviato
dal mio dispositivo Samsung</div>
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Da: Till Adams <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de"><till.adams@fossgis.de></a> <br>
Data: 23/01/18 12:33 (GMT+01:00) <br>
A: conference <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org"><conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org></a> <br>
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Conf] some decisions in the pipe <br>
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<div class="PlainText">Hi Conference comittee,<br>
<br>
this is a general reminder on some decisions/discussions,
that I have on<br>
my list we have to talk about in the following weeks. This
email serves<br>
just as a general list-up with the hope, that you'll find
some time to<br>
think about some of my issues. If you have your own things
to bring in,<br>
feel free to share!<br>
<br>
I will list these points as seperate issues below and would
be happy if<br>
we start a discussion:<br>
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1. Voting Members<br>
<br>
For the last RfP, where we nominated Bucharest as venue for
the 2019<br>
conference, we had a weak quorum, because quite some members
did not<br>
vote. I sent out personal emails to the non-voters and
received feedback<br>
from 3 of the 5 non-voters. These 3 excused themselves, they
had reasons<br>
and they are willing to stay on board and that makes me
happy.<br>
<br>
Leads me to the question, that I still did not get any
feedback from the<br>
other 2. Now it's already some weeks ago that I contacted
them,<br>
including a remembering mail.<br>
I don't know if we have an official trial to rule out people
and<br>
personnally I wouldn't like to do that, because I know at
least one of<br>
the 2 personally.<br>
On the other side, we can't be sure, that they will appear
back once<br>
upon a time. Not re-appearing means that we have to fear
more weak<br>
quorums in the future.<br>
<br>
Issue 1: How do we act here?<br>
<br>
This directly leads me to question 2: I will nominate Guido
Stein and<br>
Michael Terner as new members for the CC later. I think as
former chairs<br>
of a successful global FOSS4G conference, it is without
question clear,<br>
that we need them as new members in CC. Also there was a
request of<br>
Gerald Fenoy back this summer, where he asked for
participation as member.<br>
I am little unsure here, because I fear, that we will have a
huge CC<br>
within a few years, when we also nominate all past chairs of
regional<br>
events. In my eyes (without rating!!!) organizing a regional
event is a<br>
cmletely different game than having a global FOSS4G. And our
job is to<br>
vote on proposals for global conferences venues. On the
other side, of<br>
course, having some more active members inside CC wouldn't
be the badest<br>
idea.<br>
<br>
Issue 2: Accept nomination of Gerald Fenoy (and potential
other regional<br>
chairs?) ?<br>
<br>
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2. Voting process<br>
We discussed to alter the voting process, so that for step 1
(LOI<br>
acceptance) of the RfP 2019 we had this new "thumbs
up"/"thumbs down"<br>
vote. I will soon call for a vote, whether we want to keep
this<br>
procedure or go back to the old "one vote per member" also
for step 1.<br>
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3. Bid process<br>
I do not know, how you felt in the last RfP. I had problems
in comparing<br>
the two proposals, because one of them was very close to the
draft we<br>
gave out and the Sevilla one was, let's say, "freely
interpreted" ;-).<br>
I don't want to limit the teams' individual imagination, but
perhaps it<br>
would be easier for comparing the proposals, if all
proposals would have<br>
the same agenda. This also would save the teams from
spending money on a<br>
marketing agency for layout things (I do not want to impute,
that this<br>
happened in 2019, but this *might* happen in the future in
order to put<br>
one proposal in a better light). I wil call for a vote on
this issue<br>
soon as well.<br>
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So far, have a nice day!<br>
<br>
Till<br>
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