I agree with you Steven, NA + EU + others Numbers of participants justify this choice.
Continents could still get their annual conference. Maxi Il 08/Lug/2015 18:05 "Steven Feldman" <[email protected]> ha scritto: > 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? > > 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. > ______ > 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. > > 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. > > 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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