[OSGeo-Conf] Draft RfP document FOSS4G 2020

michael terner ternergeo at gmail.com
Mon Sep 17 02:30:36 PDT 2018


+1

I like the notion of an "email announcement" to the list stating "we have
submitted and are ready for the next phase of Q&A".

mt

On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 2:41 PM Guido Stein <guido at guidostein.com> wrote:

> Good points,
>
> I think announcement that the proposal has been submitted makes sense.
>
> Guido
>
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2018, 3:46 PM Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:49 PM, Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de>
>> wrote:
>> > Guido,
>> >
>> > Most importantly to me and perhaps should be discussed here is that I
>> think
>> > that we should make the collection of the full proposals private until
>> we
>> > are ready to release them all on the wiki. This would make it possible
>> for
>> > people who turned their proposals early to feel secure that their
>> > competitors are not using the information from their publicly shared
>> > proposal in the competitive bid.
>> >
>>
>> Sounds reasonable.  I think that the old method was a combination of
>> waiting until close to the deadline and thinking that if other LOCs
>> need to look at yours, they've got no chance anyway.
>>
>> >
>> > the 2 times I was involved, we had once only 1 proposal, for 2019 the
>> > proposals came in within the last 2 hours of the period. So this was no
>> > issue, but I see your point.
>> >
>> > In order to keep this fair also, we might have two people out of CC who
>> > receive the proposals and these 2 have the duty to release them on the
>> list
>> > when the proposal period ends. As chair, I can be one of these two.
>>
>> I would still like to require that the LOCs email the list before the
>> deadline that they have turned in their proposals.  This ensures that
>> they are subscribed to the mailing list, who speaks for the LOC,
>> directs response questions and comments at them, etc.  It also lets
>> them set the subject line and otherwise establish the groundwork for
>> their bid.  It also publicly announces it before the deadline.  Then
>> you or any designated third party can reply with the attachment after
>> the deadline.
>>
>>
>> Best regards, Eli
>>
>> >
>> > Till
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Does anyone have an objection to this?
>> >
>> > Guido
>> >
>> > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 9:28 AM Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Dear CC!
>> >>
>> >> We have a draft of the RfP document for the 2020 call now:
>> >>
>> >> The draft RfP is
>> >> at
>> >>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ltOnAoiFSTl7ERdlFKUvx-Jh9eDpVQgEn4AoCIp4SE/edit?usp=sharing
>> >>
>> >> Due to Steven, this is an open document, anyone with the link can view
>> >> and comment.
>> >>
>> >> I know we are little late, but the document is based on the RfP of the
>> >> past years. Feel free to comment on this document until *this* friday
>> >> (14.09.2018) 12h CET, after that I will kick out the call for 2020 and
>> >> we have to finalize the document and resolute all comments.
>> >>
>> >> Special thanks to Steven and Michael, who did the main work and
>> >> improvements on this document!
>> >>
>> >> Till
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