[OSGeo-Conf] Decision of Bangkok Team for proposal for FOSS4G 2018

Tue Nov 1 04:19:37 PDT 2016

Dear,

As member of the Tanzania team, I'm saddened to read your mail.
Regretting we will not have a strong competiter like you, but fully
understanding your situation.
I hope Thailand will be strengthened after this period of mourning.

The Tanzania team is very commited to organize a strong FOSS4G 2018 in Dar
Es Salaam.
Collaboration with the conference committee will be our priority.

Best wishes,

Jorieke

2016-11-01 1:13 GMT+01:00 nitin kumar tripathi <nitingis at gmail.com>:

> Decision of Bangkok Team for Proposal in 2nd Stage
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dear Members of the OSGeo Conference Committee,
>
> We have received the outcome of voting for the first stage of candidates
> for hosting FOSS4G 2018. We are happy that we are among the first two out
> of three countries which proposed. Thanks Steven to ask us to submit
> proposal for the second stage.
>
> We were charged up to host a vibrant conference but the situation
> has changed since the submission of letter of intent and we have decided to
> withdraw from the race. The reasons are:
>
> a) There is a sudden change in the situation in Thailand due to the sad
> demise of our very popular longest serving King Rama IX in Mid October. The
> whole nation is mourning and it is very difficult to get support letters
> for government, industry and academia in Thailand.
> b) Government has declared 1 year of mourning and this calls for
> no festivity and low scale of any event.
> c) We need some letters of support and sponsorship to include in
> the proposal, which is unlikely as we can not approach any organisation
> in the current situation.
> d) Also, we feel that the Tanzania Team, which has 100,000 USD support
> from the World Bank, has a rock solid foundation to organise.  I think due
> to this fact they have also got overwhelming support of 10 members compared
> to our 3. It makes us feel that we are way behind in race. So we wish them
> best of luck.
>
> I humbly appeal to the OSGeo Conference Committee not to disclose the
> number of votes at *any* stage, for all future votes. The CRO should not
> share the voting results with anyone, not anyone on the OSGeo Conference
> Committee or shared in public, ever.  It discourages other teams to try
> their best in the Stage 2 to put up a strong proposal - the goal is to grow
> passion, not hinder passion. For example, in this vote, there was no need
> to share the fact that such a vibrant community like Lima received only 1
> vote (this hurts the flame trying to burn in the Peru local community, and
> also the result can affect future votes as OSGeo Conference Committee
> members could remember such a result next time). Also potential sponsors
> may get some inkling and may back-out sensing the impending lack of support
> in the local committee for the proposal.
> The Bangkok Team conveys its' thanks to all those who have voted for its
> letter of intent and promises that we will be back with a better proposal
> for 2021.
>
> With best wishes for FOSS4G 2018.
>
> *Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi*
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> School of Engineering and Technology
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>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you to all of the committee members for your stage 1 votes.
>>
>> I confirm that Dar es Salaam and Bangkok received the necessary votes to
>> proceed to submit a full proposal in accord with the RfP process and
>> timeline
>>
>> Our thanks to the Lima team for your Letter of Intent. I hope that you
>> will continue to build FOSS4G in South America and that you will be back
>> proposing FOSS4G Lima in 2021
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Steven
>>
>>
>> > On 19 Oct 2016, at 06:13, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
>> >
>> > even better!
>> >
>> > Till
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Am 2016-10-19 14:12, schrieb David Fawcett:
>> >> I can add that the committee had 100% good intent, but the 16th voter
>> >> (me) made an error in submitting their vote yesterday. Of course, the
>> >> vote shouldnt be counted, but even if it was, it wouldnt have changed
>> >> the overall outcome.
>> >>
>> >> David
>> >>
>> >>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 3:31 AM, <till.adams at fossgis.de [5]> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> with that in my eyes we have two results:
>> >>>
>> >>> Bangkok and Dar es Salaam are official candidates and will be
>> >>> pleased to submit a full proposal.
>> >>> I yield to Steven to request this officially from both teams.
>> >>>
>> >>> And we have a functioning committee, as 14 out of 16 members voted,
>> >>> one officially recused - thats a good signal together.
>> >>>
>> >>> Till
>> >>>
>> >>> Am 2016-10-19 10:01, schrieb thomas bonfort:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Dear committee,
>> >>>> I have received a response from 15 out of 16 members, the results
>> >>>> are:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> - Bangkok: 3
>> >>>> - Dar es Salaam: 10
>> >>>> - Lima: 1
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Gavin recused himself as he is on the Dar es Salaam loc.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Best regards,
>> >>>> Thomas (CRO)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Detailed voting tokens:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Bangkok:
>> >>>> tlsdldksdkQk
>> >>>> %29f$Vwv5
>> >>>> no token
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Dar es Salaam:
>> >>>> screew
>> >>>> phlematic
>> >>>> astronaut
>> >>>> agriktamo
>> >>>> 477
>> >>>> E2127111
>> >>>> vanigs
>> >>>> 4571
>> >>>> aG7CM9ZADSGhCSyOSaJ0
>> >>>> 6ETI-UIL2-9WAX-XHYO
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Lima:
>> >>>> Turdus merula
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Voters:
>> >>>> CameronS
>> >>>> ClaudeP
>> >>>> DarrelF
>> >>>> DavidB
>> >>>> EliA
>> >>>> JachymC
>> >>>> MariaB
>> >>>> PaulR
>> >>>> PeterB
>> >>>> SangheeS
>> >>>> StevenF
>> >>>> TillA
>> >>>> VasileC
>> >>>> VenkaR
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