FOSS4G 2025 Bid Process

Basics

• FOSS4G 2023 bid is open for all the countries in the world.
  • FOSS4G 2019 was in Bucharest, Romania
  • FOSS4G 2020 was planed for Calgary, Canada (canceled due to COVID-19)
  • FOSS4G 2021 will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • FOSS4G 2022 will be in Florence, Italy
  • FOSS4G 2023 will be in Prizren, Cosovo
  • (WEBSITE COMING SOON) 2024 FOSS4G will be in Belém, Brazil
  • Where will be FOSS4G 2025 ...?

• "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 2024 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