<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">Dear Jeff,<br _moz_dirty="" /><br _moz_dirty="" />I am sorry for late reply. We have been busy at recent day for <a _moz_dirty="" href="http://www.egov.com.vn/2011/index.php?lang=en">Vietnam E-Government Symposim 2011</a> at HoChiMinh City.<br _moz_dirty="" />We (Mr.Chinh, Mr.Ngoc (Vice Minister of MONRE)) had a talk with ICT leader of VietNam Goverment and received their support to FOSS4G.<br _moz_dirty="" />We have to do some thing before giving you final decision to answer you question.<br />CIREN as host organization will formally reply all you request and questions.<br _moz_dirty="" /><br _moz_dirty="" />Best Regards,<br _moz_dirty="" /><br _moz_dirty="" />Bui Hong Shon<br _moz_dirty="" /><br _moz_dirty="" />P/S: My name in VietNamese is Son but in English is Shon because somebody call "Hi Son, come here!" but others think I was a son :))<br _moz_dirty="" /><br /><span>On 07/14/11, <b class="name">Jeff McKenna </b> <jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:</span><blockquote cite="mid:4E1EDDBC.6090903@gatewaygeomatics.com" class="iwcQuote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 13px; margin-left: 0pt;" type="cite"><div class="mimepart text plain">Dear Son and the Hanoi local committee,<br /><br />Please make sure that all of your organizing committee joins the conference_dev mailing list (subscribe at <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev%29." target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev).</a> I have submitted some questions for your local committee through that mailing list, which<br />I have included below.<br /><br />Please have your team respond to these questions as soon as possible,<br />through that mailing list. Thank you.<br /><br />-jeff<br /><br /><br /><br />On 11-07-13 2:36 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:<br />> Hello Mr. Nguyen Huu Chinh and the Vietnam local committee,<br />><br />> Thank you for submitting a letter of intent to host the FOSS4G 2012<br />> event. I have a few questions that I hope someone from your local<br />> committee can answer through this mailing list:<br />><br />> - It is not clear to me who is the chair of your local committee, please<br />> clarify this for me.<br />><br />> - Can you give some examples of how CIREN is leveraging FOSS4G/OSGeo<br />> software?<br />><br />> - Have you begun talks with the NCC or the Melia Hanoi venues, to see<br />> about their availability? What dates/months are you considering?<br />><br />> - I like that your local committee contains representatives from<br />> commercial companies, academic organizations, and government<br />> organizations. Has your local committee given any thought to an overall<br />> theme for the event? (such as natural resources and FOSS4G use, etc.)<br />><br />> - Are you proposing that the FutureGov and GIS Development organizations<br />> act as the professional conference organizer? If yes, I think that is<br />> great that you have mentioned that here in the proposal - to allow your<br />> local committee to focus only on specific FOSS4G tasks.<br />><br />> - Your letter of intent is 3 pages long, yet the guidelines specifically<br />> stated "a maximum of 2 pages" for the letter of intent, can you explain<br />> why your letter is not within those guidelines?<br />><br />> Finally, I have had the pleasure of visiting your wonderful city of<br />> Hanoi, in March of 2010. I would enjoy the chance to sit along the<br />> street again and sip some tasty local coffee with your friendly<br />> countrymen once again.<br />><br />> Talk soon,<br />><br />> -jeff<br /></div></blockquote></div>