[OSGeo-Conf] [Board] FOSS4G rotation

[Frank Warmerdam]

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>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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