[OSGeo-Conf] Re: LoI from Viet Nam

[Jeff McKenna]

Dear Son and the Hanoi local committee,

Please make sure that all of your organizing committee joins the 
conference_dev mailing list (subscribe at 
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev). I have 
submitted some questions for your local committee through that mailing 
list, which
I have included below.

Please have your team respond to these questions as soon as possible,
through that mailing list.  Thank you.

-jeff



On 11-07-13 2:36 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
 > Hello Mr. Nguyen Huu Chinh and the Vietnam local committee,
 >
 > Thank you for submitting a letter of intent to host the FOSS4G 2012
 > event. I have a few questions that I hope someone from your local
 > committee can answer through this mailing list:
 >
 > - It is not clear to me who is the chair of your local committee, please
 > clarify this for me.
 >
 > - Can you give some examples of how CIREN is leveraging FOSS4G/OSGeo
 > software?
 >
 > - Have you begun talks with the NCC or the Melia Hanoi venues, to see
 > about their availability? What dates/months are you considering?
 >
 > - I like that your local committee contains representatives from
 > commercial companies, academic organizations, and government
 > organizations. Has your local committee given any thought to an overall
 > theme for the event? (such as natural resources and FOSS4G use, etc.)
 >
 > - Are you proposing that the FutureGov and GIS Development organizations
 > act as the professional conference organizer? If yes, I think that is
 > great that you have mentioned that here in the proposal - to allow your
 > local committee to focus only on specific FOSS4G tasks.
 >
 > - Your letter of intent is 3 pages long, yet the guidelines specifically
 > stated "a maximum of 2 pages" for the letter of intent, can you explain
 > why your letter is not within those guidelines?
 >
 > Finally, I have had the pleasure of visiting your wonderful city of
 > Hanoi, in March of 2010. I would enjoy the chance to sit along the
 > street again and sip some tasty local coffee with your friendly
 > countrymen once again.
 >
 > Talk soon,
 >
 > -jeff