<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="">Calgary, Halifax and Niagara<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for your letters of interest. It is fantastic that we have three great teams proposing to host FOSS4G2020</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some questions from me:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><ol class="MailOutline"><li class=""><b class="">Niagara</b> and <b class="">Halifax</b> your proposed dates are 14-19 September. These dates overlap with the start of the jewish festivals on the evening of the 18th which may prevent some potential delegates from attending. Is there any potential to change?</li><li class=""><b class="">Niagara - </b>you say "The Niagara Falls LOC has budgeted a similar registration fee schedule as Boston 2017 and estimates a modest profit” there has been a lot of discussion about making FOSS4G more affordable, do you have any thoughts on this?</li><li class=""><b class="">Calgary - </b> "early bird registration will be
approximately $650.00 US while regular conference fee would be $800.00 US” there has been a lot of discussion about making FOSS4G more affordable, do you have any thoughts on this?</li></ol><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">May the FOSS be with you all</div><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Oct 2018, at 07:10, Till Adams <<a href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de" class="">till.adams@fossgis.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Dear Conference Committee,<br class=""><br class="">It's great to see how huge the interest is to host a FOSS4G. We've<br class="">received three (!!) LoI's for hosting FOSS4G 2020. Right now it is safe<br class="">to say, that FOSS4G 2020 is likely to be held in Canada, as all three<br class="">LoI's come from Canadadian teams.<br class=""><br class="">The LoI's are linked here:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2020_Bid_Process" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2020_Bid_Process</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Please have a look at the LoI and ask questions to the teams on this<br class="">list. Make sure, that your email is also directly adressed to the people<br class="">of the team, you are asking. The question period ends on *October 12th*.<br class=""><br class="">If not directly through you, I will post the questions with the name of<br class="">the questioner in the WIKI.<br class=""><br class="">Many greetings and have fun reading!<br class=""><br class="">I am very curious, Till<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Conference_dev mailing list<br class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org<br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>