[OSGeo-Conf] Kicking off the 2016 process

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Bart!

I really meant that the RFP will go out once we receive the short report 
from the 2014 committee, to include in the Appendix; I just now 
re-pinged the local committee about this, I am sure they will do soon.

Regarding recording the process on a website, I have updated the usual 
RFP section with the Important Dates for 2016: 
http://www.osgeo.org/conference/rfp

Will keep you all uptodate on the Appendix status, and once that is 
ready I will ask here for the approval to go ahead with the announcement 
/ call.

Yours,

-jeff




On 2014-12-05 8:46 PM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> Hey Jeff,
>
> does this mean you plan to send out the RFP at 9 Dec?
>
> Also, the corresponding Wiki pages is missing:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Bid_Process
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
> On 01 Dec 2014, at 15:01, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> 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
>>
>>
>>