[OSGeo-Conf] RFP

[Jeff McKenna]

I personally like the Dec 1st deadline.  Delaying the formal application
later than that could be bad (it's late enough).

Tyler has given an editorial pass through the doc, and the latest is
posted live
(http://community.osgeo.org/files/osgeo-conference-2007-request-for-proposal.pdf).

Time to announce.  Below is an announcement draft (feel free to suggest 
changes/additions!):

jeff


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Open Source Geospatial Foundation Announces Request for Proposal for 
Hosting 2007 Conference

Contact: Jeff McKenna
Email: jmckenna at osgeo.org

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, today announced that 
the OSGeo Conference committee has released a request for proposal, or 
RFP, (available at 
http://community.osgeo.org/files/osgeo-conference-2007-request-for-proposal.pdf) 
for the hosting of the 2007 conference.  After a very successful FOSS4G 
2006 conference in Lausanne Switzerland (http://www.foss4g2006.org/), 
OSGeo aims for the 2007 conference to be *the* geospatial conference of 
the year.  The RFP solicitation closes Dec 1st, 2006.

About OSGeo

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (http://www.osgeo.org/) is a 
not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the 
collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. The 
Foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the 
broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an 
independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, 
funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their 
contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves 
as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial 
community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for 
improving cross-project collaboration. The foundation's projects are all 
freely available and usable under OSI-certified open source licenses.