[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2027 Bristol

[Dennis Bauszus]

Hello Luca; Hello Jeroen;

Thank you for your email and feedback in regards to our letter of intent
and especially in regards to the proposed date.

The [University of Bristol] venue booking system is the reason for the
chosen date. The academic year and associated bookings begin in August
which only allows for booking after the previous Easter holidays. This
means that we would be able to securely book the venue for July 2027 in
April 2026. Hosting in August/September is not impossible but we would
only be able to secure the booking in April 2027 for August 2027. Our main
concern is that we cannot get event insurance without a secure booking and
won't be able to sell tickets prior to this.

Are there any particular regional events or other dates to look out for in
2027? I believe it was suggested that the European FOSS4G is not held in
years when the global FOSS4G is hosted in Europe. FOSS4G:NA was hosted in
November this year, just two weeks after FOSS4G Auckland, which is not
ideal. FOSS4G:Asia will be hosted in January 2026. The only other large
regional event that I am aware of is FOSSGIS [Germany, Austria,
Switzerland] which is usually organised in March.

Best,
Dennis

On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 at 13:59, Jeroen Ticheler <jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net>
wrote:

> Dear Dennis,
>
> Thanks for you and your team to offer hosting of the global FOSS4G!
>
> To provide a little context with what Luca wrote: we would very much like
> the global FOSS4G to target the August-October timeframe, while regional
> conferences target an opposite period (~March-May). In this way we can
> avoid direct competition between the two important type of regional/global
> events.
>
> With the current lack of such a direction, we've seen regional and global
> conferences really bite each other because they were only weeks apart.
>
> Kind regards,
> Jeroen
>
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 at 14:53, Luca Delucchi via Conference_dev <
> conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sat, 20 Dec 2025, 12:18 Dennis Bauszus via Conference_dev, <
>> conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear OSGeo Conference Committee.
>>>
>>
>> Dear Dennis,
>>
>>
>>> We would like to host FOSS4G 2027 in Bristol, UK.
>>>
>>> Please find our letter of intent attached to this email.
>>>
>>> We are looking forward to answering all of your questions in regards to
>>> our bid and hope to advance to stage 2 for our proposal in January.
>>>
>>
>> The proposal look really good to me, just a question about the timing.
>> You wrote second week of July, could be possible to have it a little bit
>> later?
>> There was some discussion in Auckland about having the international
>> during third fourth of the year (August-october). It is not yet a
>> requirement but it good to know
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Dennis Bauszus
>>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> Luca
>>
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