<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML DIR=ltr><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></HEAD><BODY><DIV><FONT face='Arial' color=#000000 size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am working on a bid and have the following
questions at this stage:</FONT></DIV>
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<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>Which body undertakes dinancial transactions for
the conference? Any local company or organisation identified by the LOC, or
OSGEO internationally, or something else?</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>The RFP states that the conference should break
even and if there is a loss, OSGeo will cover it. If there is a profit, where
does that go?</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is translation a requirement or is the entire
conference in English?</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the evaluation criteria in the RFP it states
that it is desirable for the conference to move around. Please clarify what
this means.</FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>Our national GIS organisation, GISSA
(Geoinformation Society of South Africa) is planning a major national GIS
conference in 2008 and rather than have it it March as planned and risk
splitting the local market for GIS conferences (it will be difficult for many
people here to justify to their employers going to two conferences), we would
like to consider running it in parallel, or overlapping, with FOSS4G2008, in
Spet/Oct 2008. Please let me know if this is OK in principle then we can
discuss further.</FONT></LI></OL>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanks and regards</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gavin Fleming</FONT></P></BODY></HTML>