[Board] FOSS4G - South America

Sat Oct 22 04:53:59 PDT 2016

I've been working with Manolo from the Lima team for several years now, 
and am discussing FOSS4G-LATAM with him.  I also yesterday joined the 
FOSS4G-BuenosAires discussions, which began yesterday.  Since others are 
finally realizing the importance of this role for the foundation, it 
might be great for the Board to revisit my proposed partially funded 
FOSS4G Advisor position: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Advisor_Role

-jeff

-- 
Jeff McKenna
President Emeritus, OSGeo
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna

On 2016-10-22 6:59 AM, Suchith Anand wrote:
> Unless anyone in the Conference Committee has any objections , may i request the OSGeo Board to have a discussion item on FOSS4G South America and endorse ( but no finance support) Lima team to run FOSS4G South America in 2018 and build up momentum for  annual regional event in South America modelling FOSS4G-Europe, FOSS4G-NA, FOSS4G-Asia etc. I  really hope from 2018, we will have regional events around the world and having South America and Africa starting regional events will be great to accelerate OSGeo around the world.
>
> Maybe OSGeo Board can also provide a laison contact from Conference Commitee to give some direction to Lima team on this?
>
> Let us make sure that the efforts put in by the Lima team is given opportunity in some form to accelerate OSGeo in South America.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Conference_dev <conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
> Sent: 20 October 2016 9:01 AM
> To: Cameron Shorter; conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [OSGeo-Conf] R:  Stage 1 Voting results
>
> There is also FOSS4G Asia, which is very successfully and attracts many local (continental) people. I suggest you to contact them as well. And well,  for anything you need, contact me (chair of FOSS4G Europe 2015).
> Best!
> Maria
>
>
>
> Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung
>
>
> -------- Messaggio originale --------
> Da: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> Data: 20/10/2016 05:13 (GMT+01:00)
> A: conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Stage 1 Voting results
>
> FOSS4G Lima team,
>
> While you have not been selected for the international FOSS4G event,
> please don't be discouraged. I suggest you (and the rest of South and
> Central America) consider running an annual South/Central America
> FOSS4G, similar to the very successful FOSS4G-North America and
> FOSS4G-Europe, which run in parallel with the International FOSS4G.
>
> It could rotate between South/Central American cities.
>
> I think there is a great opportunity to make this happen.
>
> Warm regards, Cameron
>
> On 20/10/2016 1:00 PM, Steven Feldman wrote:
>> Thank you to all of the committee members for your stage 1 votes.
>>
>> I confirm that Dar es Salaam and Bangkok received the necessary votes to proceed to submit a full proposal in accord with the RfP process and timeline
>>
>> Our thanks to the Lima team for your Letter of Intent. I hope that you will continue to build FOSS4G in South America and that you will be back proposing FOSS4G Lima in 2021
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Steven
>>
>>
>>> On 19 Oct 2016, at 06:13, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
>>>
>>> even better!
>>>
>>> Till
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 2016-10-19 14:12, schrieb David Fawcett:
>>>> I can add that the committee had 100% good intent, but the 16th voter
>>>> (me) made an error in submitting their vote yesterday. Of course, the
>>>> vote shouldnt be counted, but even if it was, it wouldnt have changed
>>>> the overall outcome.
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 3:31 AM, <till.adams at fossgis.de [5]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> with that in my eyes we have two results:
>>>>>
>>>>> Bangkok and Dar es Salaam are official candidates and will be
>>>>> pleased to submit a full proposal.
>>>>> I yield to Steven to request this officially from both teams.
>>>>>
>>>>> And we have a functioning committee, as 14 out of 16 members voted,
>>>>> one officially recused - thats a good signal together.
>>>>>
>>>>> Till
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 2016-10-19 10:01, schrieb thomas bonfort:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear committee,
>>>>>> I have received a response from 15 out of 16 members, the results
>>>>>> are:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Bangkok: 3
>>>>>> - Dar es Salaam: 10
>>>>>> - Lima: 1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gavin recused himself as he is on the Dar es Salaam loc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> Thomas (CRO)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Detailed voting tokens:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bangkok:
>>>>>> tlsdldksdkQk
>>>>>> %29f$Vwv5
>>>>>> no token
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dar es Salaam:
>>>>>> screew
>>>>>> phlematic
>>>>>> astronaut
>>>>>> agriktamo
>>>>>> 477
>>>>>> E2127111
>>>>>> vanigs
>>>>>> 4571
>>>>>> aG7CM9ZADSGhCSyOSaJ0
>>>>>> 6ETI-UIL2-9WAX-XHYO
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lima:
>>>>>> Turdus merula
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Voters:
>>>>>> CameronS
>>>>>> ClaudeP
>>>>>> DarrelF
>>>>>> DavidB
>>>>>> EliA
>>>>>> JachymC
>>>>>> MariaB
>>>>>> PaulR
>>>>>> PeterB
>>>>>> SangheeS
>>>>>> StevenF
>>>>>> TillA
>>>>>> VasileC
>>>>>> VenkaR
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> Conference_dev mailing list
>>>>>> Conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org [1]
>>>>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev [2]
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Conference_dev mailing list
>>>>> Conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org [3]
>>>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev [4]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Links:
>>>> ------
>>>> [1] mailto:Conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org
>>>> [2] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev
>>>> [3] mailto:Conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org
>>>> [4] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev
>>>> [5] mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Conference_dev mailing list
>>> Conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org
>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev
>> _______________________________________________
>> Conference_dev mailing list
>> Conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter
> M +61 419 142 254
>