[OSGeo-Conf] Naming the three regions of FOSS4G rotation
Franz-Josef Behr
franz-josef.behr at hft-stuttgart.de
Sun Feb 26 02:10:49 PST 2017
+1 for "other regions"
-Franz-Josef
Am 25.02.2017 um 12:36 schrieb Till Adams:
> same for me: +1 for "other regions"
>
> Am 24.02.2017 15:39, schrieb Guido Stein:
>> +1 "Other Regions"
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 6:11 AM Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com
>> <mailto:shfeldman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Good suggestion
>> ______
>>
>> Steven
>>
>>
>>> On 24 Feb 2017, at 10:42, Jeroen Ticheler
>>> <jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net <mailto:jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Maybe name it "Other Regions" instead. Still brief and clear
>>> without making them "the rest" ;-)
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>>> Jeroen
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>>> Op 24 feb. 2017 om 09:41 heeft Steven Feldman
>>> <shfeldman at gmail.com <mailto:shfeldman at gmail.com>> het volgende
>>> geschreven:
>>>
>>>> Brevity is important IMO - North America, Europe & Rest of
>>>> World makes sense, is clear and brief
>>>>
>>>> I don’t think RoW suggests that are geographically illiterate,
>>>> far from it
>>>> ______
>>>> Steven
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 23 Feb 2017, at 21:12, Guido Stein <gstein at appgeo.com
>>>>> <mailto:gstein at appgeo.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I think labels are useful. I think rest of the world makes it
>>>>> sound like we don't know geography and are Euro-NorthAmerican
>>>>> Centric.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be nice to have a better label than "rest of the world".
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking for a comparable, the world bank uses the following
>>>>> regions (http://www.worldbank.org/en/about/annual-report/regions):
>>>>>
>>>>> Africa
>>>>> East Asia and Pacific
>>>>> Europe and Central Asia
>>>>> Latin America and the Caribbean
>>>>> Middle East and North Africa
>>>>> South Asia
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps we can use this tact:
>>>>>
>>>>> North America
>>>>> Europe
>>>>> Africa, Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Caribbean, Middle East
>>>>> (AAPLACME)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -Guido
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 2:29 PM Eli Adam
>>>>> <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us <mailto:eadam at co.lincoln.or.us>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Eli Adam
>>>>> <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us <mailto:eadam at co.lincoln.or.us>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Hi all,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > What would we like to name the three regions of FOSS4G
>>>>> rotation?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> > Commonly these have been called North America, Rest of
>>>>> World, and
>>>>> > Europe. Could there be a better term for Rest of World? Any
>>>>>
>>>>> Should we formalize what has been commonly used, North
>>>>> America, Rest
>>>>> of World, and Europe?
>>>>>
>>>>> > geographers here?
>>>>>
>>>>> So I troll the whole list asking if there are any
>>>>> geographers and no
>>>>> one responds; well done to ignore the trolling, maybe it
>>>>> got the whole
>>>>> message ignored.
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On the order of the regions, I think that the order
>>>>> should be stated
>>>>> > in the same order as the rotation (as I've done above)
>>>>> which still
>>>>> > leaves three options.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Thoughts and suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> Partly what prompted me raising this question was the
>>>>> "About FOSS4G"
>>>>> section in this news announcement
>>>>> http://www.osgeo.org/node/1752 which
>>>>> is for a conference in a continent which FOSS4G reportedly
>>>>> doesn't
>>>>> visit. "FOSS4G rotates around the world each year,
>>>>> throughout 3
>>>>> regions of the Americas, Europe, and Asia/South Pacific."
>>>>>
>>>>> In specific documents like the RFP, we could use "North
>>>>> America, Rest
>>>>> of World, and Europe" and in generic things like news
>>>>> announcements we
>>>>> could say something like "FOSS4G rotates around the world
>>>>> each year,
>>>>> having visited five continents so far".
>>>>>
>>>>> Eli
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Thanks, Eli
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