<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Interesting idea<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.<br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 8 Jul 2015, at 13:45, Ian Turton <<a href="mailto:ijturton@gmail.com" class="">ijturton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Following a brief twitter discussion - Jeff suggested I raise the idea here.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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)?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ian</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature">Ian Turton<br class=""></div>
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