[Board] [OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G rotation

[Daniel Morissette]

BTW, my thinking when I suggested raising the bar to 40-50k$ surplus for 
FOSS4G in the board meeting was to put this as a firm goal on the NA and 
Europe years, and a soft target for the other regions.

My reasoning is that with our current expenses[1], if we got 40-50k$ 
from FOSS4G two years in a row, then we could afford a lower surplus, or 
even zero surplus the third year without putting our finances at risk.

Daniel / Treasurer

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=OSGeo_Budget_2013&oldid=69501


On 13-04-12 6:10 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Cameron,
>
> I feel this question ties into the expected revenue to some degree.  I'm
> personally fine with your suggestion with the caveat that we should
> expect a "compelling proposal" to meet our revenue generation guidelines
> which is (IMHO) going to be hard to do if aim for $50K revenue in the
> conservative case.
>
> I'm also fairly flexible on this who issue, but I *feel* like every time
> we have a revenue discussion we come up with one set of conclusions, but
> somehow we fail to actually apply those conclusion when setting
> requirements for the conference.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     In the last board meeting, the question was raised about global
>     FOSS4G rotation.
>
>     we currently have a 3 way rotation policy: Europe 2013 / North
>     America 2014 / Rest of world 2015
>
>     It has been suggested that we should revisit this rotation policy,
>     and consider:
>
>     Europe / North America / Europe / North America
>
>     Reasons:
>     * Previous global FOSS4G events have attracted more people and been
>     more lucrative in Europe / North America
>     * Europe/North America could be argued to be less financially risky.
>     Our one cancelled FOSS4G was in China in 2012.
>     * FOSS4G (global and regional) events traditionally draw half their
>     attendance from the local region. Europe and North America both have
>     large populations with established OSGeo communities.
>
>     I'm in favour of continuing our current 3 way rotation, on the
>     proviso that there are proven OSGeo communities outside of
>     NA/Europe. By proven, I'd suggest that we would consider regions
>     which have already successfully staged a FOSS4G regional event (or
>     similar) and who can put together a compelling justification that
>     they can attract comparable attendees and sponsors to Europe/North
>     America.
>
>     Looking at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/__Live_GIS_History
>     <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_History>
>     I see that there have previously been regional FOSS4G events in:
>     Argentina
>     India
>     Korea
>     Malaysia
>     Japan
>
>     So for 2015, I'd suggest that our FOSS4G pre qualification should
>     invite responses from "rest of the world" and Europe, but we should
>     give a preference to "rest of world" assuming they can provide a
>     compelling proposal which is likely to attract similar success to
>     past European and North American conferences.
>
>     Generalising the rule. Our rotation policy should be:
>
>     * We give a strong preference to a region which hasn't had FOSS4G
>     for 2 years
>     * We next consider the region which had FOSS4G 2 years ago
>     * Only as a last resort would we consider a region which had FOSS4G
>     last year
>
>     Regions are considered as: Europe / North America / Other locations
>
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