[OSGeo-Conf] [OSGeo-Discuss] Announcement: Call for Location global FOSS4G 2021

[Till Adams]

Dear Mr. Guney,

many thanks for your email. Please consider my reply as my personal
opinion, so in this case, I am not representing the opinion of the whole
conference committee.

In general, we have to detect, whether Istanbul is "Europe" or "Asia"
first - I know about the geographic location, it's geographically both,
but often Turkey is considered as being part of Europe - in that case, a
bid for 2021 would not be possible, as the next bid for a European
global FOSS4G will be for the 2022 conference. But that is not the
problem, as you can consider yourself as being part of Asia ;-)

My 2nd point is, that we recently had a conference in Bucharest, which
is (on a global level) quite close to Istanbul. This is no problem and
no obstacle handing in a bid for 2021 at all - it *may* just lower your
chances to be selected, as OSGeo loves to see moving FOSS4G around the
globe. But this - again - is just my thought and must not be the truth
and must not be influence my vote in any case! A very good proposal is
of course most convincing, not the geographical location!!

So, in general, of course we, OSGeo's CC, would love to receive as many
bids for the 2021 conference. So feel free to hand in yours.

BTW: The barreer for the first step is quite low, as you can see on the
bid page in the WIKI [1] - hand in a letter of intent (which is
restricted to a max. of 2 pages) and then you are in the process. The
"real" work begins once you passed stage 1.

I wish you all the best!


Till


[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2021_Bid_Process


Am 06.09.19 um 09:18 schrieb Caner Guney:
> Dear Conference Committee,
>
> We are trying to establish the Turkey chapter of OSGeo. Besides, we
> are organizing the single and the largest (national-level) GIS
> Congress in Turkey on the 23rd-25th of October, 2019
> (https://cbskongresi.org/).
>
> We, as Istanbul, would like to be candidate for the next global FOSS4G
> 2021.
>
> We believe that this organization is going to be valuable opportunity
> to improve and strength open source spatial activities in Turkey.
>
> Furthermore, FOSS4G never be held in Istanbul or Turkey yet.
>
> Could you please let us know briefly what do you think about this
> candidacy?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Asst. Prof. Dr. Caner Guney
>
> Istanbul Technical University, the department of Geomatics
>
> GIS congress chair
>
>
>
> On 9/6/2019 9:32 AM, Till Adams wrote:
>> Dear Community,
>>
>> just passed and survived the last FOSS4G in Bucharest, the community is
>> looking forward for the next global FOSS4G conferences. We, OSGeo's
>> Conference Committee, are happy to announce the call for location for
>> the
>>
>> "Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference 2021"
>>
>> to be held in "other regions". Precisely this means that the conference
>> can be anywhere on the world, except Europe and North America. Only in
>> case that we do not receive any appropriate bid from these parts of the
>> world, we will consider to accept bids from Europe or North America.
>>
>> Summer holidays are over, no reason not to start your work, grab some
>> people together, build a team, have fun and work out your bid! 2021 is
>> right around the corner and be proud to get all the FOSS4G folks to your
>> country, to your city, to your pub and introduce them to your local
>> environment!
>>
>> Please find all details on [1] and more background information on [2].
>> In case that you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask the
>> conference committee or your barkeeper ;-)!
>>
>>
>> Have fun!
>>
>> Till, on behalf of OSGeo's Conference committee
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2021_Bid_Process
>>
>> [2] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee
>>
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