[OSGeo-Conf] starting the 2012 RFP process...

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Tyler,

(replying to the Conference Committee)

This was the wording decided by the OSGeo Conference Committee last 
year, when we changed the selection process.  Those specific regions 
were mentioned that way, so I am simply following what the committee 
decided.  As I mentioned in the RFP draft and in that email, the 
regional movement decided was 2011 North America, 2012 Asia/Pacific, and 
2013 Europe.  This would mean obviously that for 2012 we would ask for 
letters of intent from the Asia/Pacific region, and if none are received 
(or don't receive sufficient backing from the committee members), then 
we would ask for your "anywhere else".

With such a tight timeline for releasing the RFP now, I'm hoping to 
avoid any huge discussions on changing the whole process (like we did 
last year)...but comments are welcome...so I'm sharing this with the 
whole conference committee to hear.

I personally would love to see FOSS4G in South America!

-jeff





On 11-05-24 4:51 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> On 2011-05-24, at 10:58 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>
>> "Letters of Intent" will be accepted from potential Local Organizing Committees (LOC) in the Asia/Pacific region. If there are no submissions from groups in that region, letters from other regions will then be solicited."
>
> Hi Jeff,  is South America not an option?  I thought the rotation was North America, Europe and then "anywhere else" - but I see your wording it wasn't like that.  Just checking if that was deliberate or not, since some Brazilians were asking on the discuss list not long ago.