<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Cameron,</div><div><br></div><div>I just re-read this wiki page.</div><div><br></div><div>Well done on collating this information in such a concise and thoughtful manner!</div><div><br></div><div>Bruce</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Saturday, 20 September 2014 7:17<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Discuss OSGeo <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fixing FOSS4G<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
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><br><div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/09/2014 5:47 am, Michael Gerlek wrote:<br></div><blockquote cite="mid:CACojOo9kswdc=M+wTz83veVDSLWDKys_Q9PkxdYYBxUDoiwRoA@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"><div dir="ltr">China would still have failed, but we would have known about it [and, hopefully, acted] sooner.
<div><br></div><div>-mpg</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Dan Ames <span dir="ltr">
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dan.ames@byu.edu" target="_blank">dan.ames@byu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
                .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">**********************************************************************</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Daniel P. Ames, Ph.D., P.E.</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div><br><fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br><pre wrap="">_______________________________________________
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