<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>There's lots of good advice here. I encourage all of our committee members to read this.<div><br></div><div>d.</div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Anne Ghisla <<a href="mailto:a.ghisla@gmail.com">a.ghisla@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[Board] FOSS4G 2013 wrap up in London - notes</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">November 22, 2013 09:26:39 PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">OSGeo Board <<a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org">board@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div>Hello all,<br><br>on Wednesday we held the FOSS4G wrap up meeting, with the presence of<br>Steven, Barry, Barend, Abigail, Claire, Matt, Jo, Jeremy and myself.<br>We had a morning of open discussions, that we subsequently wrote down<br>in this page:<br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2013_Reflections_by_the_LOC">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2013_Reflections_by_the_LOC</a><br>(over 100 commits made today!)<br><br>This set of considerations will be helpful first to FOSS4G 2014<br>organisers, even if several of them will not apply because of<br>conference organisation outsourcing. I hope that FOSS4G* events<br>organisers will find them insightful.<br><br>Specific notes for the Board ask for more precise requests in the RfP,<br>especially on pricing, and for explicit support to the LOC when such<br>discussions arise on the public lists.<br>I plan to expand this page<br>http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Rfp<br><br>and bring it to next Board meeting and/or to relevant committees.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Anne<br>-- <br>http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla<br>_______________________________________________<br>Board mailing list<br>Board@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board</div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>