Volker, I see your point - you are not writing it for the first time. Truth is, there was strong request for FOSS4G-E during CEE event. Do you want to prohibit it? I would better support it. Certainly it means loss for the global FOSS4G. Does it mean win for OSGeo? I think so. We just have to talk about the proper model.
Jachym Dne 18.6.2012 14:44, Volker Mische napsal(a): > Hi, > > thanks Jachym for bringing up the smei-regional events. My preference > lies towards having one global event a year and also *real* regional > events, but no semi-regional events. Before I come to more details about > what I think a real regional event is, I'd like to state that I think > FOSS4G-CEE is real regional event, FOSS4G-NA is a semi-regional. > > What I understand under real regional events (they are not sorted by any > priority, I just give them numbers for later reference): > 1. In the language of the chapter if that's possible. FOSSGIS > (Germany), GFOSS (Italy), the conf (currently only a day) from OSGeo.nl > (Netherlads) are examples. FOSS4G-CEE is an exception, there's no common > language in the area, hence it's in English. > 2. Attracting people from the region. At least at the FOSSGIS the > audience it quite different from the global FOSS4G. The FOSSGIS attracts > more governmental people and end users. There are even talks about > people using the software for their work (I find them boring, as I'm a > dev, but I think it is interesting for a lot of people). > 3. You can hardly tell your boss to send you to the regional event, > except you are from this region. > > How's that different from a semi-regional event. Point (2) is the most > important one for me here. If there is an NA event (and a potential EU > one), it will attract more people, but at what price? I think you can't > tell your boss that you need to go to a global and to a NA (resp. EU) > event + a regional one. So you would need to chose between the global > and the semi-regional one, which would make both of them a bit smaller. > > My solution for this problem is: Don't do semi-regional events. The > FOSS4G-NA just spans a way too big region. Many, if not even the > majority of the Open Source geospatial development happens in the US and > Canada. You will attract people from abroad as so many of the major > players will be there. Just do real regional events instead. Do e.g. a > California one. The local chapter is quite huge (I gave a talk there a > year ago, and there were about 100 RSVP). Do this on several places in > NA (e.g. a Midwest one). > > Cheers, > Volker > > On 06/18/2012 01:54 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote: >> Hi, >> >> not sure, if this proposal is the best for the scope of FOSS4G. >> >> As I already wrote in one of previous mails, we have to try to find the >> balance between global, semi-regional (approx. continent level) and >> regional (GFOSS, FOSSGIS, ...) events. >> >> Another working (not sure, if better) model could be: >> >> * Global event as it is - every year >> * Semi-Regional events (NA, E, Asia, ...) - every year too, of course >> not on the continent, where the global event is going be organized >> * Regional events (GFOSS, FOSSGIS, Geoinformatics, ...) every year but >> in e.g. spring >> >> Having global event every second year means implies, that OSGeo meeting >> will take place only every second year? And what about people, who would >> like to meet other people, but for some reason (usually financial) are >> not able to travel to other part of the world? >> >> Any opinion to this? >> >> Jachym >> >> Dne 16.6.2012 13:42, Maria Brovelli napsal(a): >>> +1. I will be happy to help Greek friends in organizing the meeting. Anyway >>> I'm wondering if sooner or later is possible to organize a Mediterranean >>> conference.... >>> Maria >>> >>> 2012/6/15 Dimitris Kotzinos <kotz...@csd.uoc.gr> >>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> I saw with great pleasure the call for organizing the 1st Latin America >>>> FOSS4G conference. >>>> Congrats to the friends there and let me add my offer to help in any >>>> possible way to those who preceded me. >>>> >>>> The purpose of my e-mail though is a bit different. Taking into account >>>> the fact the this year we had the North America regional conference, the >>>> central European regional conference and now the Latin America Regional >>>> Conference I feel that it is due time to move to a mixed scheme of an >>>> international and regional conferences. >>>> >>>> Thus I propose that we have the odd years (starting from 2013) ONLY the >>>> international event (our very successful FOSS4G conference) and the even >>>> years (starting from 2014) ONLY the regional conferences. >>>> Being in a world in crisis where funding for travel becomes more difficult >>>> and where people cannot participate in too many conferences in a year I >>>> feel that this is an acceptable compromise. >>>> So I call upon the board to decide on this proposal and, of course, all of >>>> you to argue in favor :) or against! >>>> >>>> One final note for the European participation on this list: I suggest that >>>> we start organizing a regional European level FOSS4G (if there is agreement >>>> also integrating in it the Central-Eastern Europe event) starting from >>>> 2014. I volunteer Greece to host the first such event (OK, given that >>>> things in Greece will not turn out too bad :)). >>>> If there is an initial agreement we can organize things a bit more. >>>> >>>> Thanks for the consideration of both proposals, >>>> >>>> Dimitris Kotzinos >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> Discuss mailing list >>>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/discuss<http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Conference_dev mailing list >> conference_...@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev > -- Jachym Cepicky Help Service - Remote Sensing s.r.o. jachym.cepi...@gmail.com HS-RS: jac...@hsrs.cz http://bnhelp.cz http://les-ejk.cz
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