[OSGeo-Conf] Urgent call for reply / question period LoI FOSS4G 2018 ended yesterday !!!

Mon Oct 17 07:35:44 PDT 2016

Dear Manolo, Juan,

many thanks for your (late ;-)) replies to the conference committee, I 
hope it is right in time before the committee members fix their votes 
;-)

I put your answers into the WIKI in the manner I thought it fits best 
to our questions:
  https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2018_Q&A_Lima

What I am missing is some basic information, that already Steven 
requested for:

- Who else is on your local organizing committee (LOC)?
- What is your proposed venue? (include access to Internet, room sizes, 
maximum attendees)
- What are your provisional dates for the conference?
   (I could estimate sometime in September, as you lined out the 
september temperatures, but is it possible to be more precise here?)
- Early thoughts on prices of conference attendance? (indicative 
estimates)
- What is the price range and general location of your proposed 
accommodations?  (hotels)

Maybe you can give some more information on this?

Many thanks, Till

Am 2016-10-17 14:08, schrieb Juan Manuel Delgado Estrada:
> Dear Till, thank you very much for your communication on the FOSS4G
> 2018, and send the answers to questions about the candidacy of Lima 
> at
> FOSS4G 2018 but Im not sure if I get to the discussion forum OSGEO 
> why
> you forwarding the mail.
>
> Best regards,
>
> JUAN MANUEL DELGADO
>
> 
> ________________________________________________________________________________
>
> ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ABOUT FOSS4G 2018
> Oct 17, 2016; 7:02am — by  [4] Manolo Delgado [5]
>
> Dear members of the Conference Committee OSGEO - FOSS4G sending the
> answers to your questions and concerns about the candidature of Lima
> to host the 2018 FOSS4G. 
>
> Peru is the western center of South America and is the cradle of a
> great culture with more than 5,000 years old. 
>
> The average temperature of 26 C ° in summer, average temperature of
> 17 Cº in winter and in September the average temperature is 20 C
> °. 
>
> Lima is the capital of Peru and the international airport is 25
> minutes or 45minutes from the historic center of Lima or the 
> financial
> center of Lima (San Isidro). 
>
> Peru has 84 areas of possible 106 lives, has ancient Cusco capital of
> the Incas and Machu Picchu is located, traveling 80 minutes via area,
> if you want to know the Peruvian Amazon biodiversity and enjoy this
> iquitos to 70 minutes, if you want to know beaches and enigmatic 
> Nazca
> lines is 45 minutes from Lima. 
>
> Lima is regional air hub and principal of South America and have 
> daily
> and direct to the US, Latin America and Europe connections, its hotel
> capacity is large with the presence of international chains and
> services last generation. 
>
> Lima was considered in 2016 as Best culinary destination in South
> America and as best destination for business tourism according to the
> World Travel Awards Sudamerica, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and
> Tourism is our ally and are aware of our application. 
>
> In Peru there is no presence of international or domestic terrorism,
> there is no security problems or pitfalls of drug cartels or
> xenophobia is quite the opposite in the warmth towards foreign
> visitors. 
>
> Our commitment is that in 2018 the exchange FOSS4G be a north - south
> on knowledge, innovation and business in Geotecnologies for Peru and
> Latin America. It has contacted the OSGEO communities of Bolivia,
> Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Brazil and other countries to
> participate in this event FOSS4G 2018, but first we will launch the
> 2017 FOSS4G LATAM. 
>
> We consider it important to encourage the participation of OSGEO
> Brazilian community because they are part of the economies of the
> BRICS and a large internal market but above all has an active
> community that little has participated in events OSGEO according to
> statistics of participation by countries of the FOSS4G. 
>
> On prices of attendees obviously have preferential rates for students
> and seniors so the same one for the countries of low and middle 
> income
> so that you can achieve the participation of delegations from 
> emerging
> countries and low income in a greater number and know the ecosystem
> geomatics of these countries are from America, Africa or Asia. This
> study that simultaneous translation of English and Spanish will be
> offered. 
>
> The event will feature keynotes, roundtables, oral presentations and
> posters, workshops, business conferences and exhibitions fair for
> companies, all in one building. Besides a feast of fellowship event
> will be taken in a suitable place with live bands and DJs, all 
> covered
> in a single charge. 
>
> I am a teacher of several Peruvian universities like the National
> University of San Marcos is the oldest in Latin America founded in
> 1551 and other Latin American universities in Bolivia, Mexico and
> Colombia who are interested in being part of this geospatial event 
> and
> with the support of the IGU - International Geographical Union and 
> AAG
> - AAG where there are chapters of cybercartografia and Geotecnologies
> where events are no less than 4,000 people annually, and manage mail
> contact nearly 15,000 people who participated in these events, plus
> there one experienciaen organize and manage national academic events,
> thematic workshops or being the smallest of nearly 100 people and the
> largest of nearly 2,000 people in the last 5 years, but we are 
> advised
> by a company professional event organizer extensive experience. 
>
> I am part of a team of Peruvian and Latin Americans who work, we
> investigate various issues of geography and geotechnologies attuned 
> to
> innovation and time activist of free software, open data and its
> proper use by all citizens in search of the good life for all of us. 
>
> I hope to be respodiendo all questions graciously sent to this forum
> FOSS4G 2018. 
>
> Sincerely, 
>
> JUAN MANUEL ESTRADA DELGADO 
>
> International Geographical Union – Perú 
> Open Geoespatial  Foundation - Perú
>
> PS: Sorry for the delay in responding but I am in Ecuador on the
> Habitat III Conference of the UN.
>
> 2016-10-17 4:05 GMT-05:00 <till.adams at fossgis.de [6]>:
>
>> Dear Juan,
>>
>> Steven, our chair is on holiday, so I jump in. You handed in a
>> letter of intent for hosting FOSS4G 2018 in Lima, Peru.
>>
>> The schedule [1] of our process shows, that the question period
>> ended yesterday, 16.10.2018. Although there have been several
>> questions addressed to your team, we did not receive any reply.
>> For a complete list of all questions, see [2].
>>
>> Please answer these questions and/or deliver the missing
>> information ASAP to OSgeos conference list [3]. We are going to
>> start the voting process soon.
>>
>> My personal guess is, that you wont receive the necessary two
>> votes, if you do not answer the questions of the committee.
>>
>> With kind regards, Till
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2018_Bid_Process [1]
>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2018_Q%26A_Lima [2]
>> [3] conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org [3]
>
>
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2018_Bid_Process
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2018_Q%26A_Lima
> [3] mailto:conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org
> [4]
> 
> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=379511
> [5]
> 
> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=379511
> [6] mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de