[OSGeo-Conf] Call for Votes: Host Venue for 2007 conference

[Frank Warmerdam]

percy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for all of the positive comments about Portland's proposal! If we 
> had know that the bar was going to be so high, we obviously would have 
> put more detail into our budget and made some of our other ideas more 
> explicit. It would be great for future proposers to have a previously 
> *chosen* proposal as a reference and, as Jeff mentions, an actual 
> criteria listing with points assigned to each category.

Percy,

This being our first year with any sort of selection process, it was
all quite new to us as well.

> I hope that Victoria reaches out to us, we are brimming with energy!

Well, quite a bit of the work will happen right here on this list I
think, so please stay involved!

> Sorry for the late response, I was at a scientific conference (AGU, a 
> conference of 13,000+, where geoinformatics were discussed quite a lot 
> and OSGEO might want to consider future "boothing"). There is another 
> interesting OSGEO possible event next year called the "Electronic 
> Geophysical Year" which highlights the interchange of scientific data 
> about the earth, among other things...

Sounds interesting.  This should be suggested to Viscom.

I was also wondering if we might want to setup a slightly informal
'OSGeo day' before or after the next OSCON in Portland.

Best regards,
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