<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi!<br><br></div><div>This has been largely discussed for years and never implemented (well, Steven Feldman did his part on the sponsorship team in 2021) so I am all for it! Thanks Luca!<br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 4:24 PM Eli Adam <<a href="mailto:eadam@co.lincoln.or.us">eadam@co.lincoln.or.us</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 class="gmail-msg-692703356172522537">
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Hi Luca and all,</div>
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That sounds like a great idea! </div>
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Best regards, Eli</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 28, 2022 11:15 PM<br>
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<div>Hello Luca, hello all,<br>
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thanks Luca for the idea. I support it strongly. We have such a <br>
structure for the FOSSGIS conference too and it helps a lot.<br>
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I added my name to the page and I am happy to support FOSS4Gs.<br>
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See you Astrid<br>
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Am 29.08.2022 07:33 schrieb Luca Delucchi:<br>
> Dear Conference committee, OSGeo friends;<br>
> <br>
> working on the FOSS4G and SotM 2022 organization I was able to see two<br>
> different types of organization for the two conferences. I really like<br>
> the idea of having a working group helping the LOC team that OSM<br>
> foundation has, this helps a lot to simplify the work of LOC.<br>
> So in these days I spoke with some people about my idea to create a<br>
> working group in helping the different LOCs to have a successful<br>
> FOSS4G (mainly the international one but it could also be done with<br>
> regional if needed, for example setting up or helping with pretalx).<br>
> Most of the people I spoke with really liked the idea so I added it to<br>
> the board meeting and all the members supported the idea. I already<br>
> found some people interested in being part of this working group.<br>
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> This new group is not a replacement of the Conference Committee<br>
> because they have two different purposes:<br>
> - the Conference Committee has to put out the bid and choose the best <br>
> candidate<br>
> - the Conference resources (final name has to be decided but this is a<br>
> good proposal of Michael) has to help the chosen candidate to set up a<br>
> good FOSS4G and simplify the work and it is a operative entity<br>
> <br>
> I started a wiki page [0] and I'll be working on that in the next<br>
> weeks, if you are interested to be part of and support this working<br>
> group please add your name.<br>
> <br>
> I would like to have the first meeting by the end of September, after<br>
> having a call with FOSS4G 2023 team.<br>
> <br>
> [0] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Resources" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Resources</a><br>
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