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

Tue Nov 1 20:54:43 PDT 2016

Condolences to the Bangkok team for their country's loss.

Best regards, Eli

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Peter Batty <peter at ebatty.com> wrote:

> As others have said, I am sorry to hear this news but understand the
> situation and send my condolences to the Thailand team.
>
> We as a conference committee need to decide how to proceed now, in this
> unusual situation. If the timing had been a little different and the
> situation had arisen a couple of weeks ago, it is quite possible that the
> good proposal from Lima would have received more votes and have proceeded
> to the second stage. I think that we need to have more discussion first,
> but we may need to vote on whether we feel it is appropriate to ask Lima to
> submit a more detailed proposal, if they are still interested in doing
> this, or whether we go ahead and award the conference to Dar es Salaam.
>
> In either case I think it is appropriate that we still ask for a full
> proposal from Dar es Salaam, as this is an important part of the overall
> planning process for the conference, and of the due diligence for the
> conference committee to be convinced that a good plan is in place.
>
> What do others think about the best way to proceed?
>
> Cheers,
>     Peter.
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Sanghee Shin <shshin at gaia3d.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Dr. Nitin Kumar Tripathi and Bangkok team,
>>
>> It’s too bad to hear that your team would withdraw from the bidding.
>> However I fully understand your current situation and respect your
>> decision. I really appreciate all your efforts that you’d put to the race
>> so far and expect to see another vibrant activities in your country soon
>> again. May the FOSS be with you.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> 신상희
>> ---
>> Shin, Sanghee
>> Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
>> http://www.gaia3d.com
>>
>> 2016. 11. 1., 오전 9:13, nitin kumar tripathi <nitingis at gmail.com> 작성:
>>
>> 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*
>> Professor and Director-Special Degree Program
>> School of Engineering and Technology
>> Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Geoinformatics
>> Asian Institute of Technology
>> P.O. Box:4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand, Phone:
>> +66-886021115 (Mobile), +66-2-524 6392 (Office)
>> e-mail: nitingis at gmail.com
>> My Blog: *nitinkt.wordpress.com <http://nitinkt.wordpress.com/>*
>> Research Pages:
>> ResearchGate:  https://www.researchgate.net/
>> profile/Nitin_Tripathi/?ev=hdr_xprf
>> GoogleScholar:  http://scholar.google.com/cit
>> ations?hl=en&user=BQr_DiEAAAAJ
>>
>>
>> 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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