FOSS4G-Asia-2018

Pages related to the FOSS4G-Asia 2018 Call for hosting.

Rotation

The committee decided unanimously that FOSS4G-Asia will be organized as a bi-annual (every two years) counting form last FOSS4G-Asia that was organized in Hyderabad in January 2017. It was also decided that the next and future FOSS4G-Asia event will be organized between November-January period.

Selection Committee

• Dr. Tuong Thuy Vu , University of Nottingham, Malaysia
• Mr. Ravi Vundavalli, Secretary, OSGeo-India
• Dr. Sarawut NINSAWAT, AIT
• Mr. Gérald Fenoy, GeoLabs SARL
• Dr. Ho Dinh Duan, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology
• Mr. Martin Isenburg, rapidlasso GmbH
• Mr. Daniel Kastl, Georepublic
• Prof. Xianfeng Song, University of Chinese Academy of Science
• Venkatesh Raghavan, Osaka City University

Bids

The following groups have submitted bids to host:

• University of Burdwan, India
  • cover letter: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/foss4g/regional/asia/2018/Covering%20Letter%20to%20FOSS4G%20Asia%202018%20Secretariate%20by%20GSS%2030042017..pdf
  • expression of interest
  • tourist attractions
• KSIS (Korea Spatial Information Society) and OSGeo Korean Chapter
  • email
  • letter of intent
• OSGeo Japan Chapter
  • email
• University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
  • letter

Bids Proceeding to Proposal Phase

LoI submitted by Korea and Sri Lanka mentioned early 2018 as possible dates and both the proposers have agreed to consider change of dates to late 2018 (Nov-Dec) 2018, in keeping with the bi-annual schedule.

The selection committee also decide not to consider India as a venue for FOSS4G-Asia 2018 as the India was the venue for the FOSS4G-Asia 2017 also.

Considering the above, the Selection committee has shortlisted Japan, Korea and Sri Lanka as possible venue/host.