<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Jeff:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">YES, understood about the need for Board approval. Apologies for the twitter exuberance; as you know it was a long and strenuous process and we were relieved and joyful to get the Selection Committee's endorsement. As appropriate, I am happy to clarify by twitter that we've received the "selection committee recommendation" and await "board approval."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks again, and apologies for the premature announcement.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">MT</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Jeff McKenna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">An early congratulations to Michael and the entire BLOC. Of course also thank you to the entire Ottawa and Philadelphia teams for their hard work throughout this long process.<br>
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Michael please note that this is actually a "recommendation" to the OSGeo Board, who will now have to approve this at the board level. I will likely allow board members to discuss this internally through a voice call in the next few days as well. Please hold off on any public announcements (although unfortunately I see many twitter messages already).<br>
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Sanghee thank you for stepping into manage the final vote, as I know very well it is a very important position, with more details to consider than most realize. You handled it well. And let's not forget the thankless work that Eli did to get all this rolling, it is an absolute thankless position that many criticize but few volunteer to do, and I appreciate all of Eli's work through this process.<br>
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Talk soon,<br>
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On 2015-11-17 10:24 PM, Sanghee Shin wrote:<br>
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Dear All,<br>
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14 out of 17 members have voted and host city for the 2017 FOSS4G event will be,<br>
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Boston, U.S.A.<br>
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There was no tie.<br>
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Congratulations to the Boston team and many thanks to Ottawa and Philadelphia team for your great works during the bidding.<br>
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I’ll ask approval of this result to the Board soon.<br>
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Kind regards,<br>
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신상희<br>
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Shin, Sanghee<br>
Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company<br>
<a href="http://www.gaia3d.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.gaia3d.com</a><br>
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