<div dir="ltr">Thank you, Adam and we as committee agree in principle with you<div><br></div><div>In summary with all the questions raised yesterday - please find our feedback below</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="auto">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">In reference to your queries, we believe that the adage 'if it ain't broke, dont fix it' is quite apt. Therefore we would like to continue with the original template of having the existing committee members working in collaboration with new members in making the event a successful one. In short - Locals lead with lots and lots of helpers</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We have also agreed on the brand name to be used i.e. FOSS4G SotM Oceania - Pasifika to further illustrate the geographical importance of all the small island states with our bigger neighbors Australia and New Zealand, and of course the wider SotM community for more international inclusiveness. In short, we conquer to use "
FOSS4G SotM Oceania - Pasifika" </div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>Our colleague Edwin will be making the changes to our LOI online to reflect the above</div><div><br></div><div>On behalf of the committee</div><div>vasiti</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 12:23 PM 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"><div dir="ltr">Hi Vasiti,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your very open consideration of the questions raised here, it’s really confidence inspiring to see.</div><div><br></div><div>A quick comment following up from Andrew’s question and based on the google doc: SotM is the ‘brand’ for conferences of the OpenStreetMap community</div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">…and an unsolicited opinion which I hope doesn’t conflict with OSGeo Oceania board directives/visions/??: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">the SotM (State of the Map) component is really important and in my mind should be always part of the branding / event plan for OSGeo Oceania supported events.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> W</span>e want both OSGeo and OpenStreetMap represented.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Maybe one day we can come up with less verbose branding for our regional conferences which is inclusive of OSGeo *and* OSM.</font></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 at 13:48, 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="ltr">Ok everybody<div><br></div><div>I have copied this question in the google doc</div><div><br></div><div>pls answer there then we can summarise all into 1 statement</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 3:45 PM Andrew Harvey <<a href="mailto:andrew.harvey4@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.harvey4@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>> FOSS4G Pasifika 2020<br></div><div><br></div><div>For clarification, is the intent to host a joint FOSS4G + SotM conference or just FOSS4G? The letter of intent sometimes drops the SotM component other times includes it so just looking to clarify this please. </div></div>
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