[Board] Draft announcement regarding FOSS4G 2012

[Jo Cook]

+1 from here too

Jo

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg at flaxen.com> wrote:

> +1 from out here****
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> *From:* board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Peter Batty
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 18, 2012 2:24 PM
> *To:* board at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [Board] Draft announcement regarding FOSS4G 2012****
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> Hi all, as discussed at the board meeting last week, here is a draft
> announcement from the board about FOSS4G 2012. All feedback welcome. One
> specific question: are there other "regional FOSS4Gs" we should mention?**
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> We agreed we should aim to get an announcement out this week if possible.*
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> Cheers,****
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>     Peter.****
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> It was announced last week by the local organizing committee that the
> FOSS4G 2012 conference that was scheduled to be held in September in
> Beijing has been canceled. The OSGeo board was disappointed to hear this of
> course. We have known for some time, as has anyone who follows the OSGeo
> conference or board public mailing lists, that the local committee was
> facing various challenges. But we wanted to give the local team the maximum
> chance to try to pull together an event.****
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> FOSS4G has been successful being a truly global conference, taking a major
> event around the world with most of the work done by local volunteers.
> We've had great success with this approach, with excellent events in cities
> including Sydney and Cape Town. But this approach has its risks too, and
> we'll look carefully at what we can learn from this year to mitigate these
> risks in future.****
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> But FOSS4G remains strong. The 2011 event in Denver was the largest yet,
> with 900 people from 42 countries and great reviews from attendees. And
> plans for FOSS4G 2013 in Nottingham are already very advanced, we have a
> very strong team organizing that and are looking forward to a great event
> there.****
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> FOSS4G has also evolved into multiple regional events in addition to the
> global one. We have had multiple successful regional FOSS4G events already
> this year: one for North America in Washington DC and one for Central and
> Eastern Europe in Prague. FOSS4G Japan will take place in November.****
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> OSGeo normally presents the Sol Katz award at the annual FOSS4G
> conference, to recognize an individual as a leader in the geospatial open
> source community. The Sol Katz award will still be made this year, but it
> is still to be determined how, when and where the presentation will take
> place. Also the OSGeo Annual General Meeting will be rescheduled in due
> course.****
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