<div dir="ltr">Hello folks,<div><br></div><div>I have been working at bringing people together to put together a FOSS4GNA with the support of the OSGeo US Community and past organizers of the conference. </div><div><br></div><div>There is no specific plan for 2021 or 2022. It is the feeling of most people involved that if there is an event held this year it should be online and that we should start planning an in-person event for next year.</div><div><br></div><div>I would be happy to discuss this further with Jonathan as well as support any team that wants to run a NA event.</div><div><br></div><div>Personally, I am of a mind to split up the NA event into national conferences until the NA community is strong enough to bring participants and organizers from all the NA nations to participate in such a conference.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope this helps and am happy to discuss it further.</div><div><br></div><div>-Guido</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 6:47 AM Steven Feldman <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">afaik it is up to the NA community to decide whether they are hosting a FOSS4G NA in 22<div>Conf Cttee do not run the selection process, that is done by the regional chapter, often there is only one candidate.</div><div><br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 29 Jul 2021, at 21:29, Jonathan Neufeld <<a href="mailto:jneufeld@tecterra.com" target="_blank">jneufeld@tecterra.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hi All,<span> </span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Has there been any talk about hosting a FOSS4G NA in 2022?<span> </span><u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Is OSGeo planning to a run a bid process similar to the FOSS4G Global events?<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">If so, Calgary may be interested in hosting it – it depends on many factors, but I’m curious to know what the process and timeline looks like as of now.<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></div><div style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Jon<span> </span><u></u><u></u></div></div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">Conference_dev mailing list</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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