<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Reposting this from the board list as it may interest the CC.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The current target in RfP is $650 including social activities but excluding workshops. The costs of travel and accommodation have equalled or, for out of region delegates, exceed the registration costs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To my knowledge no proposal has been received for the last 5 years that was able to support 800+ delegates at ca $500</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2019 will be a ‘European’ year, I am sure that the CC would welcome a $500 proposal from the Netherlands community</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">______<br class="">Steven<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 09:38:47 +0000<br class="">From: <<a href="mailto:l.g.j.boerboom@utwente.nl" class="">l.g.j.boerboom@utwente.nl</a>><br class="">To: <<a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org" class="">board@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br class="">Subject: [Board] Open open source, reduce registration fees.<br class="">Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:62bfc24ab8c3406490757d8c14802bbe@EXMBX32.ad.utwente.nl" class="">62bfc24ab8c3406490757d8c14802bbe@EXMBX32.ad.utwente.nl</a>><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br class=""><br class="">Dear board,<br class=""><br class="">Where is the cap on registration fees for FOSS4G? You have closed open source to me with these steep registration fees. You have to change this. A few years ago I could hardly convince my departmental management to pay for registration. Now it is impossible! Please open up the conference again. Open open source! Those who cannot organize a conference below $500 should not be allowed to organize. Scale down. No fancy stuff. Back to the basics! Back to the core!<br class=""><br class="">With kind regards,<br class=""><br class="">Luc Boerboom<br class=""><br class="">Dr. Ir. Luc Boerboom<br class="">Assist. Prof Spatial Planning and Decision Support Systems and Infrastructures<br class="">Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-information Management<br class="">Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), <a href="http://www.itc.nl/" class="">http://www.itc.nl/</a><br class="">University of Twente, <a href="http://www.utwente.nl/" class="">http://www.utwente.nl/</a><br class=""><br class="">E: <a href="mailto:l.g.j.boerboom@utwente.nl" class="">l.g.j.boerboom@utwente.nl</a><<a href="mailto:l.g.j.boerboom@utwente.nl" class="">mailto:l.g.j.boerboom@utwente.nl</a>><br class="">T: +31 (0)53 487 42 47 or +31 (0)53 487 44 44<br class="">Postal address<br class="">PO Box 217<br class="">7500 AE Enschede<br class="">The Netherlands<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px;"><br class=""></span>
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