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<div>Dear Jeff, </div>
<div>Congratulations for your amazing proposal! Unfortunately the dates you chose are at the beginning of academic semester. Therefore you can involve local students but it will be difficult to have professors and researchers of other universities around the
world. Best regards and thanks for your consideration.</div>
<div>Maria</div>
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Da: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com> <br>
Data: 08/10/18 01:10 (GMT+01:00) <br>
A: conference <conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org> <br>
Cc: chair@foss4g.ca <br>
Oggetto: [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G-Halifax 2020 Answers: Steven <br>
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<div class="PlainText">Dear Steven,<br>
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First, Karine and I would like to both say that we are honoured to be <br>
with such a high class of local committee teams such as Calgary and Niagara.<br>
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Thank you for mentioning that Jewish festivals for Rosh Hashana begin on <br>
the evening of the 18th. We have a backup date reserved with the Nova <br>
Centre venue for 31 August to 5 September, so it is possible to change <br>
our dates. When we were looking at possible venues about 6 months ago, <br>
our vision was to leverage a mid-September date to additionally allow <br>
for university students and pre-university students to be involved, but <br>
also because the local weather is best in mid-September (a lot less <br>
rain, bringing beautiful fall/autumn colours and sunshine to the <br>
Atlantic Canada region). We the FOSS4G-HFX team will continue to <br>
analyze our dates closely. For the record, using our initially proposed <br>
dates, the 19th (Saturday) would be the community sprint. We will try <br>
to be accommodating as possible.<br>
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Thank you,<br>
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-Karine Jean & Jeff McKenna<br>
co-chairs, FOSS4G-HFX 2020<br>
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