Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Should we consider all the Americas for FOSS4G2017 Conference?

2015-07-08 Thread Bart van den Eijnden
This is also a competition question I think. Does South-America want to compete in the same bidding round as USA and Canada etc., or do they rather compete with Africa, Middle-East, Asia, Australia etc.? Best regards, Bart On 08 Jul 2015, at 14:45, Ian Turton ijtur...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Should we consider all the Americas for FOSS4G2017 Conference?

2015-07-08 Thread Steven Feldman
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

[OSGeo-Discuss] overall value of market for business based on OSGEO projects?

2015-07-08 Thread Andrea Giacomelli
Hi - earlier I was at a cafe with a former colleague...a question arose: what might be in 2015 the overall value, in terms of gross revenue, of the market related to products listed as OSGEO projects, including incubating projects. I understand this might be a wild guess, or it might be not,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Should we consider all the Americas for FOSS4G2017 Conference?

2015-07-08 Thread Eli Adam
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Steven Feldman shfeld...@gmail.com 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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Should we consider all the Americas for FOSS4G2017 Conference?

2015-07-08 Thread Ian Turton
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 ea...@co.lincoln.or.us wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Steven Feldman shfeld...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting idea What

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] overall value of market for business based on OSGEO projects?

2015-07-08 Thread Andrea Giacomelli
Hi Brian, and thanks for the inspirational overview. I totally agree with it. But if I go back with this to my colleague (I won't meet him at the cafe after close-of-business today because I'm travelling, but tomorrow might well be), he will claim that this is too much of a quasi-philosophical