[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2017 host city selection result

[Claude Philipona]

Hello,

Yes it is about vacations. I think you should avoid the first 3 weeks
of August. Fourth 4 is ok most schools have started. Businesses are
not necessarily shutting down, but running and many will be on
vacation with family. I'm quite sure you would less people from
Europe. And I don't think many would be able to combine with family
vacation.

Regarding academic year, no problem here, as most universities start
the fall programs between mid-september and mid-october.

Is this really a problem to shift one week? The two other bidder a
week later no?

Claude

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Andy Anderson <aanderson at amherst.edu> wrote:
> Hello, Claude and Jeroen,
>
> Can you please be more specific about why this is a bad time period? Is it
> because everyone in Europe is taking vacation and won’t want to come to the
> conference instead?
>
> FYI, in the US most businesses will not be shut down, and people have a lot
> flexibility as to when they take vacation (I hear we also don’t get as many
> days off ;-). As we indicated before, in the later week we run in to more
> colleges and universities that are beginning their fall programs. The
> following week is even worse.
>
> — Andy, BLOC
>
> On Nov 18, 2015, at 4:59 AM, Jeroen Ticheler <jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net>
> wrote:
>
> Congratulations to the Boston team! I fully support this suggestion by
> Claude and strongly encourage the Boston team to check if there are later
> options. Business (and the rest of society) is pretty much shit down in the
> currently proposed period.
> Cheers,
> Jeroen
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> Op 18 nov. 2015 om 10:35 heeft Claude Philipona
> <claude.philipona at camptocamp.com> het volgende geschreven:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Congratulations to Boston and many thanks to the other teams for their work.
>
> I'm sorry to come back on the date discussion, but I really think the
> is an issue with the dates: mid-August week (14-20 August 2017) is too
> early and will probably strongly reduce the number of attendees, at
> least from Europe.
>
> I think the earliest date to avoid this problem, would be Workshop
> 21-22 August 2017, Conference 23-25 August 2017.  Or the same pattern
> one week later would also be good.
>
> As we are almost 2 years in advance, is the a chance you can adapt the
> dates.
>
> Kin regards,
>
> Claude
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 3:24 AM, Sanghee Shin <shshin at gaia3d.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> 14 out of 17 members have voted and host city for the 2017 FOSS4G event will
> be,
>
> Boston, U.S.A.
>
> There was no tie.
>
> Congratulations to the Boston team and many thanks to Ottawa and
> Philadelphia team for your great works during the bidding.
>
> I’ll ask approval of this result to the Board soon.
>
> Kind regards,
>
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