[Foss4g2012] Re: [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2012 Timeline

[Cameron Shorter]

Thankyou for the feedback. I look forward to further fruitful discussion.

On 30/01/2012 8:24 PM, "Ðܽà" <xiongjie666 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Cameron:
>
> Thanks for your suggestion. We will report the progress in email once a
> week to the conference list.
>
> About the DVD, we are discussing it with the LOC, hopefully, will hand out
> the DVD during the conference. Please wait for the answer.
>
> Best Regards!
>
> Susan Xiong
>
> ÔÚ 2012Äê1ÔÂ25ÈÕ ÏÂÎç3:54£¬Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>дµÀ£º
>
>> Gao,
>> Thank you very much for your email giving us insight into the activities
>> of your Local Organising Committee.
>> An email such as this allows our OSGeo international community to gain an
>> insight into conference preparations, and will create opportunities for us
>> to work with you to create a successful conference.
>>
>> Would it be possible for you, or someone else on the organising committee
>> to provide a regular email update such as this to the conference email
>> list? I suggest sending around once per week, or maybe after each LOC
>> meeting you email out key points that have been discussed or decided.
>>
>> One question I discussed with you earlier was:
>> "Could the LOC please commit to handing out an OSGeo-Live [1] DVD (or
>> USB) at FOSS4G 2012, as has been done at FOSS4G international conferences
>> since 2009, and also at many local FOSS4G local conferences too. This will
>> involve including the cost of printing the a DVD or USB into the conference
>> budget, which will be ~ $1 to $2 per DVD. Should the LOC commit to handing
>> out the DVD, I will be in a strong position to ask for volunteers to
>> translate the DVD documentation into Chinese."
>>
>> Could you please raise this question with your LOC and respond with a
>> definite yes or no.
>>
>> [1] http://live.osgeo.org
>>
>>
>>
>> On 24/01/2012 1:20 PM, Gao Ang wrote:
>>
>>> Board,
>>>
>>> Thank you all very much for your care and advices about FOSS4G 2012.
>>> The preparation is going smoothly here. After contacting all LoC
>>> members, I represent them to give the summaries about our progress
>>> here.
>>>
>>> The venue of FOSS4G 2012 is the Beijing Conference Center. The
>>> conference date is arranged as follows.
>>> 9th, Sept. (afternoon) - desk registry (one day after openstreetmap
>>> meeting closing in Tokyo)
>>> 10th¨C11th Sept ¨C Workshops
>>> 12th¨C15th Sept ¨C Tutorial/Technical/Academy Section
>>> 16th, Sept ¨C Code Sprint
>>>
>>> The milestone is proposed as follows. It is about one month late if
>>> comparing with 2011 events. But it can be recovered very soon in
>>> Chinese way.
>>> 1) Web-site release 29th Feb 2012 (can be early, after spring festival)
>>> 2) Announcement of Chinese Sponsors 1st March 2012
>>> 3) Release of Prospectus for Sponsors 15th March 2012
>>> 4) Early Bird Registration Start 15th March 2012 to 15 June 2012
>>> 3) Call for Abstracts: Start 31 March 2012 - Close 30th April 2012
>>> 4) Call for Workshop and tutorials 31 March 2012 - Close 30th April 2012
>>> 5) Voting for Technical Session Abstract 1 May 2012 - 15th May 2012
>>> 6) Abstract acceptance 31 May 2012
>>> 7) Workshop acceptance 31 May 2012
>>> 8) Call for Full papers for Academic Session 31 May 2012 with deadline
>>> 1st July 2012
>>> 9) Announcement of Keynote Speakers 1st July 2012
>>> 9) Release Conference Program 10th July 2012
>>> 10) Issue for support letters for Visa commence 10th July 2012 onwards.
>>>       Visa will be issued in 4 working days at Chinese Embassy or
>>> Consulate
>>>        in resident countries.
>>>
>>> Now we are preparing the brochure so that we can contact foreign
>>> sponsors with it. For local sponsors, we have contacted Chinese
>>> Academy of Sciences, Supmap GIS and so on. Prof. Song who is now in
>>> Japan, had a full discussion with Prof. Raghvan, collecting a lot of
>>> experiences about past events. We also welcome you for your valuable
>>> suggestions. ("Prof. Song"<song.osgeo at gmail.com>, "Xiong Jie"
>>> <xiongjie666 at gmail.com>  and I<tomgaoang at gmail.com>  will follow the
>>> mail lists and response to the suggestions.)
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Gao
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>>
>>
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