[OSGeo-Conf] Vote stage 1 on RfP 2020 before 19th of October

Mon Oct 22 08:34:38 PDT 2018

Dear All,
Dear Till,

Congratulations to the Halifax and Calgary Teams for advancing to the next round. Best wishes and we look forward attending your meeting in 2020.

Despite the technical difficulties we had to get access to edit the Wiki, we hope that this did not influence the committee members decision and that we get another chance to host the FOSS4G international conference sometime in the near future.

The “zero" vote was quite disappointing and some more details would be helpful.

We would appreciate any constructive feedback from the voting committee members (as well as our friendly competitors) to present a more attractive proposal next time.

Please send us directly your constructive criticism, helpful comments and any suggestions for a more attractive future bid to: Brad (huntersrow64 at gmail.com<mailto:huntersrow64 at gmail.com>) and Chris (rensch at buffalo.edu<mailto:rensch at buffalo.edu>).

It would be great if you could particularly comment on the idea of an inclusive, bi-national bid for the conference or related concerns.

Best wishes to all of you making FOSS4G a continued success,
Brad Berg (Canada Co-Chair) &
Chris Renschler (US Co-Chair).

On Oct 20, 2018, at 5:07 AM, Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de<mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de>> wrote:

Dear list,

also congrats from me to the two teams, that stay on stage!

I am sorry for the Niagara Falls team, but as I know, how much work it is, to prepare a full proposal, I can say, that at least you will safe that life-time ;-). As Cameron suggested, maybe you are wanting to join one of the other teams and make a great event happen in your country!

Also many thanks to Cameron and Arnulf, to be our CRO's!

For Halifax and Calgary: Please note that your proposal is expected  by 23. of November last possible time [1]. If you have finished your proposal earlier, but don't want to publish it on the list, you can send it to Cameron and Arnulf, who will then distribute it to the eligible members of the committee.

If you have any question(s), don't hesitate to contact us, OSGeo's CC. There is a lot of experience in runing such a conference ovr here!

Till

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2020_Bid_Process

Am 19.10.2018 um 21:40 schrieb Cameron Shorter:

Voting period for FOSS4G 2020 Stage 1 is complete. We received votes from:

Eli Adam
Till Adams
Peter Batty
David Bitner
Maria Brovelli
Vasile Craciunescu
Steven Feldman
Gavin Fleming
Darrell Fuhriman
Claude Philipona
Venkatesh Raghavan
Paul Ramsey
Sanghee Shin
Guido Stein
Michael Terner
Msilikale Msilanga
Mark Iliffle

Unless it was lot in transit, we haven't received a vote from:

David Fawcett

All bar one of the voters voted as requested with a combination of +1, -1 for each city as requested.

One voter only voted +1 for their preferred city. We counted 0 for the other cities for their vote.

The sum of +1,0,-1 votes for each city for stage 1 is:

Halifax: 17

Calgary: 14

Niagara Falls: 0

This means that Halifax and Calgary both qualify to continue to stage 2 of the RFQ.

I understand that Arnulf is in a poor internet connection area at the moment and I haven't been able to discuss and confirm these results with him. Hopefully he will be able to reply to confirm the result when he is back online.

Thanks to all who participated. Congratulations and best of luck for the next stage for Halifax and Calgary.

Niagara Falls participants, maybe you will want to find a way to become involved with the other cities.

Warm regards, Cameron (acting as CRO)

On 18/10/18 4:52 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:

On 13/10/2018 1:32 AM, Till Adams wrote:

Dear Voting Members of OSGeo's Conference Committee,

I know, it's still some time left today, but as I am on my way back from Barcelona home tomorow, I herewith send out the call on voting on the three phantastic LoI's for hosting FOSS4G 2020, that we received. Due to our timetable in [1] the voting period on the LoI's lasts from 13th to 18th of October (last possible time).

So please send your votes to:

Arnulf Christl

and

Cameron Shorter

The voting mechanism for stage 1 is as follows: Please vote on every single LoI with one thumb up / thumb down each and send your *three* votes to the two guys mentioned above - no of the mails to me, neither CC, nor BCC.

Your Email can look as follows:

Halifax +1

Calgary +1

Niagara Falls +1

(Of course only in case, that you vote *thumbs up* for all tree ;-). BTW: A vote against can be a "-1" and this is not comparable with the "-1" we know from OSgeo discussions, because here it does not require any reason and/or alternative, it just means "thumb down".... )

Please find all relevant information on the WIKI [1]. The teams that receive more +1's than -1's LoI's will pass stage 1.

I hope, that ALL of us will send their voting emails to Arnulf and Cameron before the last possibe time on 18th of October 2018 passed - as said, we need a strong quorum, especially when there are three teams from one country bidding for the same conference.

Regards, Till

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2020_Bid_Process

Am 07.10.2018 um 08:36 schrieb Till Adams:

Dear Voting members of OSGeo's conference committee!

This is just a reminder to be prepared to vote on the LoI's on the RfP 2020.

Please take your time to review the LoI's [1], aks qwuestions on the
conference committee list until 12th of October and then please vote
until 18th of October. I just asked two potential CRO's to assist us for
the voting process, I will send their email-adresses in a seperate email
once they agreed.

Please remember that choosing the location of future FOSS4G's is your
only duty in the conference committee and remember that it is important
to have the opinion of as many of you as possible so that we can choose
the best location for FOSS4G 2020.

If you now already know, that you will not be able to rate & vote,
please drop me a note ASAP. After the RfP I will ask the members, that
did not vote, whether they want to remain as voting members or not.

Regards, Till

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2020_Bid_Process

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M +61 (0) 419 142 254

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M +61 (0) 419 142 254

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