[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2026 Hiroshima Date and 2027 bidding process

[Eli Adam]

Hello Dennis,

Although I'm no longer a voting member of the Conference Committee, I speculate the process will be similar to 2025 and other previous years, https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2025_Bid_Process.

I know of no plans to integrate the conference_dev email list into the OSGeo discourse forum.

Hi Vicky,

Do you have any reason or citations to believe that it will be one bidding process for the next 2 years, 2027 and 2028?  I may be missing things, but I have not seen anything to indicate that will be the case.

Best regards, Eli

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From: Conference_dev <conference_dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Nobusuke Iwasaki (岩崎亘典) via Conference_dev <conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2025 4:32 PM
To: Vicky Vergara <vicky at erosion.dev>
Cc: Dennis Bauszus <dbauszus at gmail.com>; conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org <conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G 2026 Hiroshima Date and 2027 bidding process

Dear Dennsi,
Thank you for your question.

Dear Vicky,
Thank you for clarifying the schedule.

Let me add a few details about FOSS4G 2026 in Hiroshima.
The conference week will be August 30 – September 5, 2026:

- Workshops: August 30–31
- Main Conference: September 1–3
- Code Sprint and Community Events: September 4–5

Workshops will be held in a rented conference facility near Hiroshima Station.
The main conference will take place at the Hiroshima International
Conference Center,
and the code sprint venue is still under discussion.

By late August, the hottest season in Japan has passed,
but Hiroshima will still be quite warm.

Looking forward to meeting everyone in Auckland and then in Hiroshima!

Best regards,
Nobusuke
--
Nobusuke Iwasaki
 Representative, OSGeo Japan Chapter
 FOSS4G 2026 Hiroshima Co-Chair
 Professor, Geographic Information Science Lab.,
 Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University

2025年10月21日(火) 6:36 Vicky Vergara via Conference_dev
<conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org>:
>
> Hello Dennis
>
> To the best of my knowledge workshops & conference is from August 30 to September 5, 2026
> About the bidding, I think is best to ask on
> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev
> And as far as I know it's one bidding process for the next 2 years 2027 and 2028.
> But they are the ones that know best.
> Regards
> Vicky
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM Dennis Bauszus via Conference_dev <conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Conference Committee;
>>
>> We know that the FOSS4G 2026 will be in Hiroshima. Is there a fixed date yet for the conference? The last calendar week in August has been mentioned before but it would be good to have a confirmation in this regard before the handover after FOSS4G 2025 in Auckland. We assume that Hiroshima will be held during the Northern Hemisphere summer?
>>
>> The UK local chapter is interested in bidding for FOSS4G 2027. Is there any more information in regards to the bidding process?
>>
>> Are there any plans to integrate the conference_dev list into the OSGeo discourse forum. At current there is very little information in the forum.
>>
>> Best,
>> Dennis Bauszus
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