<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">It was due to the combination of costs, availability and suitability of venues. The best venue wasn't available a week later. Other venues weren't as suitable for the conference and would have cost significantly more.<div><br></div><div>Shaun</div><div><br><div><div>On 16 Feb 2013, at 23:04, Jeffrey Johnson <<a href="mailto:ortelius@gmail.com">ortelius@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I realize my opinion probably doesn't count for much, but I'm curious if there is a reason this couldn't be held the following weekend (13-15) so that those of us already traveling to the UK for FOSS4G (17-21) dont have a whole week in between.<div>
<br></div><div>Jeff<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Richard Weait <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@weait.com" target="_blank">richard@weait.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">... but I don't want to spoil the surprise. So don't read the link before you click it. :-)<br><br><a href="http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2013/02/16/state-of-the-map-2013-birmingham/" target="_blank">http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2013/02/16/state-of-the-map-2013-birmingham/</a><br>
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