[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2017 host city selection result

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Yes, as Claude says it mainly relates to most people taking vacations in those weeks and businesses running on a low pace. People will go on holidays with family and indeed most won't be able to travel to America with their families. 
Cheers,
Jeroen

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> Op 18 nov. 2015 om 14:19 heeft Claude Philipona <claude.philipona at camptocamp.com> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> 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,
>> 
>> 신상희
>> ---
>> Shin, Sanghee
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