[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2012 Timeline

[Gao Ang]

Dear Tyler:

Thanks for your greetings.
We will publish the conference website as soon as we can.
And Susan Xiong will update the WIKI in the following 2 days.
We will speed up our work.

Best regards!



On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
<tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
> Great to hear and best wishes for your festival time!
>
> Tyler
>
> On 2012-01-23, at 6:20 PM, Gao Ang wrote:
>
>> Board,
>>
>> Thank you all very much for your care and advices about FOSS4G 2012.
>> The preparation is going smoothly here. After contacting all LoC
>> members, I represent them to give the summaries about our progress
>> here.
>>
>> The venue of FOSS4G 2012 is the Beijing Conference Center. The
>> conference date is arranged as follows.
>> 9th, Sept. (afternoon) - desk registry (one day after openstreetmap
>> meeting closing in Tokyo)
>> 10th–11th Sept – Workshops
>> 12th–15th Sept – Tutorial/Technical/Academy Section
>> 16th, Sept – Code Sprint
>>
>> The milestone is proposed as follows. It is about one month late if
>> comparing with 2011 events. But it can be recovered very soon in
>> Chinese way.
>> 1) Web-site release 29th Feb 2012 (can be early, after spring festival)
>> 2) Announcement of Chinese Sponsors 1st March 2012
>> 3) Release of Prospectus for Sponsors 15th March 2012
>> 4) Early Bird Registration Start 15th March 2012 to 15 June 2012
>> 3) Call for Abstracts: Start 31 March 2012 - Close 30th April 2012
>> 4) Call for Workshop and tutorials 31 March 2012 - Close 30th April 2012
>> 5) Voting for Technical Session Abstract 1 May 2012 - 15th May 2012
>> 6) Abstract acceptance 31 May 2012
>> 7) Workshop acceptance 31 May 2012
>> 8) Call for Full papers for Academic Session 31 May 2012 with deadline
>> 1st July 2012
>> 9) Announcement of Keynote Speakers 1st July 2012
>> 9) Release Conference Program 10th July 2012
>> 10) Issue for support letters for Visa commence 10th July 2012 onwards.
>>      Visa will be issued in 4 working days at Chinese Embassy or Consulate
>>       in resident countries.
>>
>> Now we are preparing the brochure so that we can contact foreign
>> sponsors with it. For local sponsors, we have contacted Chinese
>> Academy of Sciences, Supmap GIS and so on. Prof. Song who is now in
>> Japan, had a full discussion with Prof. Raghvan, collecting a lot of
>> experiences about past events. We also welcome you for your valuable
>> suggestions. ("Prof. Song" <song.osgeo at gmail.com>, "Xiong Jie"
>> <xiongjie666 at gmail.com> and I <tomgaoang at gmail.com> will follow the
>> mail lists and response to the suggestions.)
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Gao
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