[OSGeo-Conf] Kicking off the 2016 process

[Jeff McKenna]

Oh regarding voting, I will ask the 2014 election CRO Jorge Sanz to 
manage the 2016 vote.  He may chose to use an online tool not sure, but 
I will ask him to manage the 2016 voting.

Thank you all.

PS> hello from FOSS4G-Asia transit :D

-jeff




On 2014-12-01 11:01 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hi Conference Committee,
>
> I have taken the time to draft the 2016 call for hosting document.  The
> documents are stored in SVN[1], so please feel free to edit them
> directly with your changes.
>
> There are no major changes, but here is a summary of the proposed
> Important Dates:
>
> Letters of Intent (Stage 1) due: 2015-01-09
> Stage 1 question period:     2015-01-10 to 2015-01-18
> Stage 1 decision:         2015-01-19
> Proposals (Stage 2) due:     2015-02-20
> Stage 2 question period:     2015-02-21 to 2015-02-28
> Final decision:         2015-03-01
>
> I have sent a short financial report template to Darrell for 2014
> Portland, and once that is added to the document, I believe we can call
> the document ready.
>
> My name is on the document currently, but if someone else wants to drive
> this please do; otherwise we will move ahead with this.  The OSGeo
> Conference Committee (that I am not a member of) will of course be
> responsible for voting for 2016, and then take that result to the OSGeo
> Board (nothing has changed there).
>
> Thanks everyone, looking forward to another wonderful FOSS4G event in
> 2016 in Europe!!!
>
> [1] http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/rfp/2016/
>
>
> -jeff
>
>