<div dir="ltr">Hello Jeroen;<div><br></div><div>We have options for workshops but not for the conference proper and would prefer to have the workshops and talks at the same venue. Our aim is to allow comfortably for 800 delegates with the option to expand to 1000+ if the demand exceeds our expectations. We researched alternative locations in the Bristol area. However these venues were either too remote (i.e. Newport), too small, or both. We are in communication with the venue team at the University of Bristol and I will check whether a manual reservation prior to the system calendar opening up dates for late August/September 2027 is possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Dennis</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 at 12:48, Jeroen Ticheler <<a href="mailto:jeroen.ticheler@geocat.net">jeroen.ticheler@geocat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Thanks Dennis,<div>And would there be another place where you could or would be willing to host the conference?</div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Jeroen<br id="m_-6222087534732583924lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 29 Dec 2025, at 12:32, Dennis Bauszus <<a href="mailto:dbauszus@gmail.com" target="_blank">dbauszus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">Hello Luca; Hello Jeroen;<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your email and feedback in regards to our letter of intent and especially in regards to the proposed date.</div><div><br></div><div>The [University of Bristol] venue booking system is the reason for the chosen date. The academic year and associated bookings begin in August which only allows for booking after the previous Easter holidays. This means that we would be able to securely book the venue for July 2027 in April 2026. Hosting in August/September is not impossible but we would only be able to secure the booking in April 2027 for August 2027. Our main concern is that we cannot get event insurance without a secure booking and won't be able to sell tickets prior to this.</div><div><br></div><div>Are there any particular regional events or other dates to look out for in 2027? I believe it was suggested that the European FOSS4G is not held in years when the global FOSS4G is hosted in Europe. FOSS4G:NA was hosted in November this year, just two weeks after FOSS4G Auckland, which is not ideal. FOSS4G:Asia will be hosted in January 2026. The only other large regional event that I am aware of is FOSSGIS [Germany, Austria, Switzerland] which is usually organised in March.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Dennis</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 at 13:59, Jeroen Ticheler <<a href="mailto:jeroen.ticheler@geocat.net" target="_blank">jeroen.ticheler@geocat.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Dennis,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for you and your team to offer hosting of the global FOSS4G!</div><div><br></div><div>To provide a little context with what Luca wrote: we would very much like the global FOSS4G to target the August-October timeframe, while regional conferences target an opposite period (~March-May). In this way we can avoid direct competition between the two important type of regional/global events. </div><div><br></div><div>With the current lack of such a direction, we've seen regional and global conferences really bite each other because they were only weeks apart.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Jeroen</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 at 14:53, Luca Delucchi via Conference_dev <<a href="mailto:conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 20 Dec 2025, 12:18 Dennis Bauszus via Conference_dev, <<a href="mailto:conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear OSGeo Conference Committee.<div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Dear Dennis,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>We would like to host FOSS4G 2027 in Bristol, UK.</div><div><br></div><div>Please find our letter of intent attached to this email.</div><div><br></div><div>We are looking forward to answering all of your questions in regards to our bid and hope to advance to stage 2 for our proposal in January.</div><div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The proposal look really good to me, just a question about the timing. You wrote second week of July, could be possible to have it a little bit later?</div><div dir="auto">There was some discussion in Auckland about having the international during third fourth of the year (August-october). It is not yet a requirement but it good to know </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Dennis Bauszus</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best regards </div><div dir="auto">Luca</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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