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Dan,<br>
You might want to look over the lessons learned from 2012.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012_Lessons_Learned">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012_Lessons_Learned</a><br>
I respectfully disagree with Michael. I think that early support of
the China FOSS4G could have steered the event to be a successful,
although smaller event.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/09/2014 5:47 am, Michael Gerlek
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<div dir="ltr">China would still have failed, but we would have
known about it [and, hopefully, acted] sooner.
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<div dir="ltr">Again from the sidelines... It would be
an interesting exercise to conceptualize how having a
single professional conference organizing company
would have/have not made a difference with the failed
voyage of FOSS4G to China in 2012. - Dan</div>
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