[Board] Draft announcement regarding FOSS4G 2012

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi Peter, and all,

Can we go ahead and publish this? It's been 14 days already since the 
Beijing LOC sent their cancellation email.

We got +1's from Daniel, MPG, Jo, Mark and Arnulf. Do we need votes from 
everyone?

Daniel



On 12-07-18 5:24 PM, 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. 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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