[Board] Draft announcement regarding FOSS4G 2012

[Daniel Morissette]

I like Cameron's two suggested changes.


On 12-07-18 7:21 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Peter,
> Looks pretty good. I'd be inclined to list more regional conferences, or
> no regional conferences, to avoid offending people.
> Suggestions below which you can accept or not as you see fit.
>
> On 19/07/12 07:24, Peter Batty wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>> We agreed we should aim to get an announcement out this week if possible.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>     Peter.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> But FOSS4G remains strong.
> Suggest reword above line as:
>
> But despite this setback, the FOSS4G event has continued to expand
> around the globe this year:
>> The 2011
> global FOSS4G
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
> ... as well as many regional geospatial conferences now including a
> strong OSGeo or FOSS4G steam.
> [FYI: More events listed here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_History ]
>>
>> 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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