FOSS4G 2027 Bid Process

Basics

• FOSS4G bids are open for all countries in the world.
  • FOSS4G 2019 was in Bucharest, Romania
  • FOSS4G 2020 was planed for Calgary, Canada (canceled due to COVID-19)
  • FOSS4G 2021 was in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • FOSS4G 2022 was in Florence, Italy
  • FOSS4G 2023 was in Prizren, Kosovo
  • FOSS4G 2024 was in Belém, Brazil
  • FOSS4G 2025 was in Aukland, New Zealand
  • FOSS4G 2026 will be in Hiroshima, Japan
  • 2027 FOSS4G will be Worldwide

• "Letters of Intent" will be accepted from potential Local Organizing Committees (LOC) from all of the world.
• Regardless whether one or more letter(s) of intent are received, the Conference Committee members will vote. The vote procedure for 2027 is as follows: Every member of CC votes on every LoI. LoI's that receive more than 50% of "thumbs up"-votes will pass stage 1.
• Selected letters will be invited to prepare a full bid based on the usual RFP process.
• A proposal outlining budget, potential sponsors, LOC members, and venue costs will be required, even if only one letter is received.
• Based on experiences from the past years, we would like to stress the following tasks:
  • OSGeo anticipates a Travel Grant program. There is a budget from OSGeo, but we expect the bidder to further collect money for TGP and to offer free or at least reduced passes for grantees.
  • The bid should stress the alignment with OSGeo values as given in OSGeo's CoC and contain hints on a conference CoC

Voters on RfP 2027

# Maria Brovelli
# David Bitner
# David Fawcett
# Paul Ramsey
# Vasile Crăciunescu
# Michael Terner
# Peter Batty
# Mark Iliffe
# Darrell Fuhriman
# Gavin Fleming
# Claude Philipona
# Venkatesh Raghavan
# Msilikale Msilanga
# Guido Stein
# María Arias de Reyna
# Luca Delucchi
# Besfort Guri

CRO's on RfP 2027

CRO's will receive the votes for both stages and send the final results (but no counts!) to the chair of the committee. This year we are happy to have Till Adams and Codrina on board.

• Till Adams
• Codrina Maria Ilie

Summary of Important Dates (AoE)

Release RFP:	2025 November 21.
Letters of Intent (Stage 1) due:	2025 December 22.
Stage 1 question period:	2025 December 23. to 2025 December 31.
Stage 1 polling Period:	2026 January 01. to 2026 January 09.
Stage 1 decision announcement:	2026 January 09.
Proposals (Stage 2) due:	2026 March 10.
Stage 2 question period:	2026 March 11 to 2026 March 18.
Voting Period:	2026 March 19 to 2023 May 27.
Selection of host city announced	2026 March 29.

Letters of Intent

• Accepted until December 22, 2026
• Limited to three pages
• Read the RFP document (below) and answer the following questions:

1. Who is your conference chair?

2. Who is on your local organizing committee (LOC)?

3. What is the experience of your committee members with similar events?

4. What is your proposed venue? (include access to Internet, room sizes, maximum attendees)

5. What are your provisional dates for the conference?

6. Early thoughts on prices of conference attendance? (indicative estimates)

7. What is the price range and general location of your proposed accommodations? (hotels)

8. Are you partnering with other organizations? (e.g. local entities or other events like HOT OSM Summit)

9. What makes FOSS4G in your proposed location and with your team compelling?

10. What are your safety plans? What is your financial strategy to make the event sustainable in this complex situation?

RFP Documents

• RFP containing updated process (RFP)
• Budget template (file)

Letter of Intent Review

• Letters of Intent were received from the following local committees:

• Questions will be asked of LOCs on conference_dev 2025 December 23 to 2025 December 31 - be prepared to answer the questions ASAP!
• Conference committee will vote and results announced on 2026 January 09.
  • Letters with more than 50% thumbs up will be passed on to the proposal stage.

Results Stage One

Bid Process Stage Two

Proposals were received from the following local committees: