The twitter discussion came out of a confusion between USA and North America.
Maybe there just needs to be more clarity. Ian On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 6:42 pm Eli Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Steven Feldman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Interesting idea > > > > What do you think the outcome would be? Seems to me that it would make it > > would reduce competition in ‘elsewhere group’. Would it increase S > American > > chance of hosting a global FOSS4G? > > > > That is an interesting point and question. Also probably the real > point of deliberation unless we increase the number of regions in the > rotation. > > > My view, it makes sense to keep 1/3 FOSS4G’s in N America and 1/3 in > Europe > > with the 3rd in ‘elsewhere group’ - it encourages outreach to new places > > once in 3 years while ensuring that the event is hosted in the back > yards of > > the 2 largest communities of contributors and users in the other years. > > That largely echos previous discussions, > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Reboot_2011 Reviewing the old > debate is certainly interesting. > > > ______ > > Steven > > > > > > On 8 Jul 2015, at 13:45, Ian Turton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Following a brief twitter discussion - Jeff suggested I raise the idea > here. > > > > This probably didn't fit your timing on twitter, but I would have been > far more receptive to ideas over that past several months while I > called for input as opposed to within 36 hours of finalizing and > releasing the RFP. > > > Now that we have FOSS4g-NA as a regular conference should we consider > > opening up the "third" location in our conference rotation to be > Americas - > > i.e. North and South America instead of lumping South America in with > Asia > > and the Pacific (or the anywhere else group)? > > > > I can understand the thinking back in 2010 but I know there are now large > > groups in Brazil and the Spanish language group is active in South > America > > too. > > Sao Paolo, Brazil sent a LOI in 2014 (another "North America" year) > https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2013-May/002118.html > However, there was no South American LOI in 2015 when South America > would have had priority over North America. Are you involved with the > South American Community Ian? There are large, long time, active > groups in South America hearing from those groups would be useful. > > Any potential LOCs who are interested can certainly send a low-effort > LOI. You never know who else will send a LOI, yours could be the only > letter. If there are letters both from the target region and > somewhere else, it is up to the committee if they are willing to > consider it. > > Eli > > > > > > > Ian > > > > -- > > Ian Turton > > _______________________________________________ > > Conference_dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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