<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks bitnerd, glad to know the ball is in someone’s hands :)<div class="">P<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 31, 2018, at 1:55 PM, David William Bitner <<a href="mailto:bitner@dbspatial.com" class="">bitner@dbspatial.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hey Paul,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes, you heard correctly that LocationTech/Eclipse have stepped back from acting as the professional conference organizer for the next FOSS4GNA in 2019.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The FOSS4GNA Core Committee which has been responsible for choosing the conference organizer for all events after 2013 is currently figuring out a plan for 2019. Our intent is to be as public as possible, but we are getting ourselves reorganized right now with this major change.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The makeup of the committee is the three most recent FOSS4G NA Chairs who are willing to serve (currently myself, Rob Emanuele, and Marc Vloemans), a representative from LocationTech (Jim Hughes), a representative of OSGeo (Jody Garnett), and a representative from OSGeo US (this is a rep we have just added - Guido Stein).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">David</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 12:31 PM Paul Ramsey <<a href="mailto:pramsey@cleverelephant.ca" class="">pramsey@cleverelephant.ca</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">At the risk of bringing an avalanche down on my head, is there anyone<br class="">
who can explain what the state of play is for FOSS4G-NA?<br class="">
<br class="">
Are LocationTech/Eclipse "returning" (for lack of a better word) it to<br class="">
the community to organize next year? I heard parts of phrases but<br class="">
didn't really hear a full story. Just more practically: is there<br class="">
anyone who is holding the ball for 2019?<br class="">
<br class="">
P.<br class="">
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