<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Adam,<div><br></div><div>I will vote "Yes" to:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Local leads with helpers from all over the place.</div><div><br></div><div>2. FOSS4G Pasifika 2020</div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Ed</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 at 12:05, adam steer <<a href="mailto:adam.d.steer@gmail.com">adam.d.steer@gmail.com</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 dir="ltr">Hi Vasiti, all<div><br></div><div>Thanks for this proposal, it is fantastic to see broad support and energy in the region for open geospatial systems!</div><div><br></div><div>While I’m not in a decision making position on this, I have two questions broadly:</div><div><br></div><div>1. how will this proposal address continuity / handover of experiences between current conference committees and future ones? It’s worked well so far to have a mix of old/new people on the committee, and reduces the risk of an event being organised ‘in a bubble'. On a related tangent, it would be fantastic to expose more ‘big islanders’ to how small islands in our region do things in a logistics/political sense. I don’t see clearly how to achieve that without growing the LoC excessively - perhaps local leads with helpers from all over the place?</div><div><br></div><div>2. branding: pasifika/oceania? both terms are used to describe the event. I can see where you’re coming from with joining efforts between an existing Pacific Islands OSGeo chapter and the newly minted Oceania chapter - to me it doesn’t matter which way the brand goes, just pick one :D</div><div><br></div><div>I wish this proposal all the best, and hope to see it come to life!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 16:02, Alex Leith <<a href="mailto:alexgleith@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexgleith@gmail.com</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 dir="ltr">This is a very exciting proposal, thank you Vasiti and others.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 15:47, John Bryant <<a href="mailto:johnwbryant@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnwbryant@gmail.com</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 dir="ltr"><div>Wonderful, thanks Vasiti & team! Looking forward to discussing further. We'll be in touch after the closing date (16th).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>John<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 07:37, Vasiti Soko <<a href="mailto:vasiti.soko@gmail.com" target="_blank">vasiti.soko@gmail.com</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 dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Bula,</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>On behalf of the committee members copied in this email, I hereby submit Fiji's Letter of Intent to host FOSS4G SotM Pasifika in the year 2020.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Our LOI can be found here:</div><div><a href="https://gist.github.com/FidelChe/193e1d16e9ce28dadd731c471d637de0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gist.github.com/FidelChe/193e1d16e9ce28dadd731c471d637de0</a> </div><div><br></div><div>A copy of LOI is also attached.</div><div><br></div><div>Please feel free to contact us should you require additional information.</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks,</div><div>vasiti <br></div><div><br></div><div><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:16px;line-height:1.25;padding-bottom:0.3em;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(234,236,239);color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";margin-top:0px"><br></h2></div></div>
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