[OSGeo-Conf] Kicking off the 2016 process

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi everyone,

If there are no objections, I'd like to push the RFP out the door this 
weekend; this gives some time to comment on Bart's timeline question, 
and any other points if you want.

Thanks,

-jeff

Call for Hosting 2016 docs: http://www.osgeo.org/conference/rfp



On 2014-12-11 10:34 PM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> I expressed a concern in the board meeting today that the schedule “aggressively" intersects the Christmas holiday season in Europe.
>
> @Till or anybody else planning to bid, do you share this concern or you don’t see any issue getting the first proposal in on January 9th?
>
> If it’s a concern, I guess we could shift all dates by 2 weeks into the future.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> 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.
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>> There are no major changes, but here is a summary of the proposed Important Dates:
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>> 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!!!
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>> [1] http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/rfp/2016/
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>> -jeff
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