Cameron,<div><br></div><div>Sorry about not responding. I let it slide for two reasons:</div><div><br></div><div>1. I really want GITA to weigh in directly on the issue of sharing their information. I believe they have said in the past that it won't be a problem. But I want to give them the chance to be more specific. Fortunately, since their bread and butter comes from running a trade organization and not obscuring the details of conferences, I'm betting they will be entirely open. Unfortunately, everyone at GITA is in Phoenix this week running their main conference (as are most of the Denver LOC members).</div>
<div><br></div><div>2. Jeff said this issue doesn't need to be part of this first process and can wait until later.</div><div><br></div><div>-Eric</div><div><br clear="all">-=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=-<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Eric,<br>
Did you receive this email?<br>
I'm very interested to hear your responses, and potentially discuss with you.<br>
You can catch me on skype when logged in at: cameronshorter<br>
Or sometimes on IRC at: irc://<a href="http://freenode.net" target="_blank">freenode.net</a> on channels #osgeo and #foss4g<br><font color="#888888">
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</div></div><br>-0 from me.<br>
Reason: I don't think I've seen an answer from Denver to the following questions:<br>
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* Are you prepared to share all created material as part of the conference under an Open Licence? This would include the budget as well all fliers etc.<br>
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* Are you prepared to share all created material in source format. Eg, for the budget, can it be provided in Excel format as well as, or instead of PDF.<br>
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I want to see answers to these questions committed to before we select the conference venue, as the value to future conferences will be high, and our experience in 2009 was that we were unable to retrospectively have our PCO open up their documentation for us after we had won the ability to host.<br>
I will move my vote to +1 after seeing a positive response to the above questions.<br>
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Frank Warmerdam wrote:<br>
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Jeff McKenna wrote:<br>
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I motion to the rest of the conference committee that the Denver team proceeds to stage two of the 2011 hosting process - a full proposal and budget. The RFP asks for a North American event in 2011, and the Denver team's initial plan meets all of our stage one desires.<br>
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+1 Frank<br>
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Cameron Shorter<br>
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