[OSGeo-Conf] Fwd: [Conference-europe] FOSS4G-Europe 2024

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

I would like to officially forward to the OSGeo Board the FOSS4G Europe 2024 proposal from Tartu with the recommendation to acknowledge Tartu as the venue for FOSS4G Europe 2024 and to help the LOC in the organization of the event (they were the only one to respond to our open call  [1]). I know that in the past, this committee had little to say regarding the local/regional events. However, Angelos asked about the Conference Committee opinion on the proposal. If you have any comment/suggestion/question please send it here before Tuesday 24:00 CET. If no feedback is received I will approach the board.

Warm regards,
Vasile
  
[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference-Europe-2024


On 02.03.2023 22:28, Tõnis Kärdi wrote:
> Hi once more,
> 
> having consulted with Vasile, I'm reposting our FOSS4G Europe 2024 proposal for a wider review to both conference-europe and conference-dev lists. Long story short: my bad, got the "waiting for moderator approval" for my initial message to conference-europe and did not go through the fine print immediately, which clearly stated "message body is too big".
> 
> Our proposal is still the same (see the forwarded mail below) but attachments are now replaced by links instead:
> 
> Proposal detail pdf at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kQ76Gurz7GafOpcHIeFAWB4rd1lsAaHc
> 
> Budget plat pdf at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MSCHwCDz-w_xSWq-qRGF_XaRoTNVEeB9
> 
> Sorry for the confusion. If there's any questions I'd be happy to answer them.
> 
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Tõnis Kärdi
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:     Re: [Conference-europe] FOSS4G-Europe 2024
> Date:     Tue, 28 Feb 2023 20:50:15 +0200
> From:     Tõnis Kärdi <tonis.kardi at gmail.com>
> To:     conference-europe at lists.osgeo.org
> CC:     evelyn.uuemaa at ut.ee <evelyn.uuemaa at ut.ee>, helen.kastik at ut.ee, ilya at zverev.info, alexander.kmoch at ut.ee
> 
> 
> 
> Dear conference-europe team,
> 
> On behalf of the self-organized and preparatory LOC I'm very honored to submit the proposal for holding the FOSS4G Europe 2024 conference in the beautiful city of Tartu, Estonia. The conference would be organized in cooperation with the University of Tartu Department of Geography, and would take place between 1. July-7. July 2024 following the rather "standard" FOSS4G conference schedule: 2 days of workshops, followed by 3 days of main conference, and finishing off with 2 days for code sprint. "What about the social events?" I can hear you ask. Yes, these are also planned. Ice breaker on Wednesday evening. The main party on Thursday evening (and I have to confess at least I am very excited about the location for the main party) in Lodjakoda - a recently rebuilt river barge building hall just next to the river Emajõgi about 10 minutes walk upstream from the city center.
> 
> Tartu is one of the 2024 European Culture Capitals so we expect a lot to be happening in and around the town leading up, during, and after the conference. I would be our pleasure to share this with you.
> 
> The estimated ticket prices would be 150/200 EUR (early bird/regular) for the main conference. As this is a regional FOSS4G conference then we are looking for ways to make the event more accessible to university students by offering them reduced ticket prices for 50/75 (early bird/regular respectively). Workshops would run their own ticketing at 25/50 (early bird/regular respectively) per piece.
> 
> The whole proposal in a more detailed form is attached to this e-mail (FOSS4GE_2024_Tartu_Proposal.pdf) as well as the accompanying budget plan (FOSS4GE_2024_Budget_Breakdown_plan.pdf). The budget plan assesses three scenarios based on expected number of participants: 200, 300, and 400 - with 300 being the most realistic.
> 
> Should you have any questions, I would be more than happy to answer them.
> 
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Tõnis Kärdi
> 
> 
> On 12.12.22 15:00, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
>> The correct link is
>>
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference-Europe-2024
>>
>> Thank you, Tonis, for pointing out the error.
>>
>> Best,
>> Vasile
>>
>> On 12.12.2022 14:55, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> In the last weeks, there were a couple of discussions about the restart of the FOSS4G-Europe event in 2024, when the international one should not be within Europe. If everything is OK with you, I would like to also open a call for hosting the European event in 2024. We have a more straightforward procedure for these regional events. Please check the 2024 wiki page [1] and let me know if we should make changes/corrections to the announcement.
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>> Vasile
>>>
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2024_Bid_Process
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>> _______________________________________________
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