[OSGeo-Conf] 2010 Voting Result

[Jeff McKenna]

I'm sorry Lorenzo it seems we must wait for the remaining board member 
to comment before we can officially announce.

-jeff



Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Lorenzo and the Barcelona 2010 team,
> 
> The OSGeo Board of Directors has passed our motion to award your team 
> with the 2010 hosting.  Congratulations!
> 
> The first task is an announcement (and news item on the osgeo site).  If 
> I send you a quick draft can you modify it if need be?
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
>> Jeff, all, on behalf of the Spanish LOC, I would like to thank you for 
>> your support.
>> This bid has been really challenging to all of us and we've learn a 
>> lot during this period.
>> Our hope, as LOC, is to receive more and more suggestions from this 
>> Committee and OSGeo community to make Barcelona 2010 an important event.
>>
>> muchas gracias
>> Lorenzo
>>
>> ps: "nos vemos en Barcelona"!!!
>>
> 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks to all of the committee members who voted (a few members have
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> contacted me to say that they were unable to review all of the proposal
>>>> documents in time so they have refrained from voting).  In all 11 
>>>> members
>>>> voted.
>>>>
>>>> I am excited to announce that the winning FOSS4G2010 bid is the team 
>>>> from
>>>> Barcelona, Spain.
>>>>
>>>> On behalf of all committee members I must thank all of the other 
>>>> bidding
>>>> teams (Beijing, Denver, Utrecht) for their excellent proposals and 
>>>> all of
>>>> their hard work, as it really was the best group of proposals yet.
>>>>
>>>> I'll now take the committee's decision to the OSGeo Board for approval.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks very much everyone.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -jeff