What a good idea Maria !<br>Such a Mediterannean regional event could may be gather italin, greek, spanish and french local chapters, and may be others.<br>Very good idea.<br><br>Best,<br><br>Nick<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2012/6/16 Maria Brovelli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brvmnt@gmail.com" target="_blank">brvmnt@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
+1. I will be happy to help Greek friends in organizing the meeting.
Anyway I'm wondering if sooner or later is possible to organize a
Mediterranean conference....<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Maria</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/6/15 Dimitris Kotzinos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kotzino@csd.uoc.gr" target="_blank">kotzino@csd.uoc.gr</a>></span><br>
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Dear all,<br>
<br>
I saw with great pleasure the call for organizing the 1st Latin America FOSS4G conference.<br>
Congrats to the friends there and let me add my offer to help in any possible way to those who preceded me.<br>
<br>
The purpose of my e-mail though is a bit different. Taking into account the fact the this year we had the North America regional conference, the central European regional conference and now the Latin America Regional Conference I feel that it is due time to move to a mixed scheme of an international and regional conferences.<br>
<br>
Thus I propose that we have the odd years (starting from 2013) ONLY the international event (our very successful FOSS4G conference) and the even years (starting from 2014) ONLY the regional conferences.<br>
Being in a world in crisis where funding for travel becomes more difficult and where people cannot participate in too many conferences in a year I feel that this is an acceptable compromise.<br>
So I call upon the board to decide on this proposal and, of course, all of you to argue in favor :) or against!<br>
<br>
One final note for the European participation on this list: I suggest that we start organizing a regional European level FOSS4G (if there is agreement also integrating in it the Central-Eastern Europe event) starting from 2014. I volunteer Greece to host the first such event (OK, given that things in Greece will not turn out too bad :)).<br>
If there is an initial agreement we can organize things a bit more.<br>
<br>
Thanks for the consideration of both proposals,<br>
<br>
Dimitris Kotzinos<br>
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