<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Hi Jonathan,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Although I very much see where you are coming from, it is also important to consider that life does not only happen in Europe or North America. The Oceania and Asian OSGeo communities are strong and have incredible people working with and contributing to OSGeo FOSS. The goal of OSGeo is to promote its use and adoption across the globe. This brings lots of good IMHO. And yes, that also implies that OSGeo has set a goal for itself to have a global conference move across continents in a way that does justice to both the people and the OSGeo mission. <br></div><div><br></div><div>It will be up to the participants individual considerations if that implies visiting a Global OSGeo conference in Brasil, in Japan or in New Zealand. Or not to and wait for a global conference that is closer to home. With due respect for individual perspectives and considerations.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The Conference Committee and the submitters of the current proposals are, form my perspective, extremely capable of taking all aspects of hosting a global conference into consideration, including environmental impact. And related to this we also see stronger and stronger regional conferences being setup that reduce travel for many and increase the outreach.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Jeroen</div><div><br></div><div class="zmail_extra_hr" style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; line-height: 0px;"><br></div><div class="zmail_extra" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true"><div><br></div><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- Op do, 30 mei 2024 16:31:19 +0200 schreef <b>Jonathan Moules via Conference_dev <conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org></b> ----<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="blockquote_zmail" style="margin: 0px;"><div><p>As a counterpoint, I'd like to suggest that it's environmentally
irresponsible to even consider hosting international conferences
in locations as remote as New Zealand, Hawaii, or Australia.<br></p><div class="x_167368264moz-cite-prefix">On 2024-05-30 11:49, María Arias de
Reyna via Conference_dev wrote:<br></div><div id="zmail_block"><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Conference_dev mailing list <br>Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org <br>https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev <br><blockquote><div dir="ltr">I just want to say to both teams behind the
proposals: whoever doesn't win, please, try again. This is not
an easy decision because both proposals are very good. I wish we
could have both.<br></div><br><div class="x_167368264gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="x_167368264gmail_attr">On Mon, May 27, 2024 at
10:33 AM Vasile Craciunescu via Conference_dev <<a href="mailto:conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="x_167368264moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank">conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>>
wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="x_167368264gmail_quote">Dear Conference Committee voting
members,<br> <br> The deadline for voting for FOSS4G2025 venue was extended! The
new deadline is *May 31 12h CET*. This is due to the fact that
some of you (especially Gmail accounts) did not receive the
Auckland financial proposal that was privately send by me, due
to a DKIM misconfiguration problem. I'm very sorry for the
situation and I kindly ask you to accept my apologies. Please
take in consideration the information submitted to you this
morning when casting your vote. Please do vote ASAP!<br> <br> Warm regards,<br> Vasile<br> <br> <br> On 21.05.2024 13:22, Vasile Craciunescu via Conference_dev
wrote:<br> > Dear voting members of OSGeo's conference committee!<br> > <br> > We are entering in the final phase for the selection of
the FOSS4G 2025 venue [1]. Go through the great work of
Auckland and Hiroshima teams [2] (Auckland financial details
will be send directly to the Committee members). Then, please
please send the name of your favored location/team via email
to:<br> > <br> > - <a href="mailto:codrina@geo-spatial.org" target="_blank" class="x_167368264moz-txt-link-freetext">codrina@geo-spatial.org</a><br> > - <a href="mailto:adams@terrestris.de" target="_blank" class="x_167368264moz-txt-link-freetext">adams@terrestris.de</a><br> > <br> > The deadline is May 28 12h CET. You can find the question
from the committee and the answers from the LOC on our wiki
page [3][4].<br> > <br> > Please vote!<br> > <br> > Warm regards,<br> > Vasile<br> > <br> > <br> > [1] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2025_Bid_Process" target="_blank" class="x_167368264moz-txt-link-freetext">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2025_Bid_Process</a><br> > [2] <a href="https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2025/" target="_blank" class="x_167368264moz-txt-link-freetext">https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/2025/</a><br> > [3] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2025_Q%26A_2_Auckland" target="_blank" class="x_167368264moz-txt-link-freetext">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2025_Q%26A_2_Auckland</a><br> > [4] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2025_Q%26A_2_Hiroshima" target="_blank" class="x_167368264moz-txt-link-freetext">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2025_Q%26A_2_Hiroshima</a><br> > _______________________________________________<br> > Conference_dev mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" class="x_167368264moz-txt-link-freetext">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br> > <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev" target="_blank" class="x_167368264moz-txt-link-freetext">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</a><br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Conference_dev mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" class="x_167368264moz-txt-link-freetext">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br> <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev" target="_blank" class="x_167368264moz-txt-link-freetext">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</a><br></blockquote></div><br><pre class="x_167368264moz-quote-pre">_______________________________________________
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