Open Source Geospatial Foundation Announces Request for Proposal for Hosting 2007 Conference

Contact: Jeff McKenna
Email: jmckenna@osgeo.org

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, today announced that the OSGeo Conference committee has released a request for proposal, or RFP, (available at http://community.osgeo.org/files/osgeo-conference-2007-request-for-proposal.pdf) for the hosting of the 2007 conference.  After a very successful FOSS4G 2006 conference in Lausanne Switzerland (http://www.foss4g2006.org/), OSGeo aims for the 2007 conference to be *the* geospatial conference of the year.  The RFP solicitation closes Dec 1st, 2006.

About OSGeo

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (http://www.osgeo.org/) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. The Foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will be maintained for public benefit. OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The foundation's projects are all freely available and usable under OSI-certified open source licenses.