[Board] Last call before announcement regarding FOSS4G 2012

[Daniel Morissette]

Thanks to Arnulf for posting the announcement to the discuss list a few 
minutes ago. Do we care to also send a copy to the conf committee and 
foss4g2012 lists or do we just assume that everybody follows the discuss 
list?

I updated the DNS for http://2012.foss4g.org/ which has a 1 hour TTL, so 
in the next hour you will see the same announcement text show up at that 
address.

And finally a news item has been submitted for osgeo.org.

Daniel

On 12-07-26 11:22 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Okay, since it seems that all is left is to execute and we've been
> waiting for too long already, then unless I hear objections in the next
> few hours, I will take the announcement text including Cameron's
> modifications and:
>
> 1- Send to discuss list, board list, conf committee list, foss4g2012 list
>
> 2- Publish a news item on osgeo.org
> (http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/submit_news.html)
>
> 3- Replace http://2012.foss4g.org/ with a mini-site with a copy of this
> announcement (I can take care of this once we have the announcement)
>
> BTW, the mini-site is ready with the updated text, you can preview it at
> http://2012test.foss4g.org/
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On 12-07-24 5:24 PM, Peter Batty wrote:
>> +1 from me, though that's implicit maybe :). Cameron had some
>> suggestions and I'm fine with those if we want to incorporate. I'm
>> traveling and pretty swamped today and tomorrow, if anyone else wants to
>> make final tweaks feel free.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Daniel Morissette
>> <dmorissette at mapgears.com <mailto:dmorissette at mapgears.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     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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