[OSGeo-Conf] Fwd: FOSS4G North America selection process

[Jeff McKenna]

I personally don't understand the request to 'mesh', as FOSS4G has 
already come to NorthAmerica and other locations that have an existing 
local FOSS4G event.  Nothing changes when FOSS4G-global comes to a 
location (nothing changes in the global process, that is).  Maybe I am 
misunderstanding what 'mesh' is.  If 'mesh' means that the local FOSS4G 
event would decide whether to have their own local event that year, then 
yes that is an important point for the regional committees to decide 
(for example, the FOSS4G-Asia committee decided to not hold their local 
event in 2015, because of FOSS4G-Seoul).

Yet another example is the local German event FOSSGIS, which will in 
fact still occur in 2016, even with FOSS4G-Bonn occurring.  So, it is 
really up to the regional committees to decide to hold their local event.

By the way, I am very pleased to see that FOSS4G-NorthAmerica is 
creating their own process to decide their local event, this is 
excellent.  I hope that all local/regional events develop their own 
decision process.

-jeff







On 2015-04-29 3:37 PM, Eli Adam wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 6:10 AM, Andrew Ross <andrew.ross at eclipse.org
> <mailto:andrew.ross at eclipse.org>> wrote:
>
>     Dear Everyone,
>
>     I wanted to reach out to make sure you have an opportunity to
>     participate & provide feedback on the proposed FOSS4G NA governance.
>     (see below)
>
>     Also, and very important, I would like to initiate a discussion
>     about how we might mesh the process when FOSS4G Global comes to
>     North America. If you would, please have a look and share your
>     thoughts, we'd be grateful. Thank you in advance.
>
>
> Yes, I think we should specifically detail how international years will
> work.  Here are some of my previous questions on this,
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2014-April/002552.html
>
> The international years would continue as they always have unless
> changed on this list.
>
> Best regards, Eli
>
>
>
>     Kind regards,
>
>     Andrew
>
>     -------- Forwarded Message --------
>     Subject: 	FOSS4G North America selection process
>     Date: 	Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:37:19 -0400
>     From: 	Andrew Ross <andrew.ross at eclipse.org>
>     <mailto:andrew.ross at eclipse.org>
>     Organisation: 	Eclipse Foundation
>     To: 	OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
>     <mailto:discuss at lists.osgeo.org>, Location IWG
>     <location-iwg at locationtech.org> <mailto:location-iwg at locationtech.org>
>
>
>
>     Dear Everyone,
>
>     (x-posted to OSGeo & LocationTech discussion lists, please fwd to
>     all interested parties)
>
>     As a fairly new conference, FOSS4G North America has lacked a formal
>     selection process in terms of how to select which city/venue, who
>     was organizing, and more. Until now...
>
>     A team of concerned people from the community including many past
>     chairs of North American FOSS4G events have collaborated to draft a
>     proposal for how FOSS4G North America will be governed.
>
>     On behalf of the team, we would like to invite you to review the
>     draft and participate in the process. The review period will last
>     until April 29th. After which, we will enact the process for FOSS4G
>     NA 2016.
>
>     The governance document is available publicly here
>     <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WlgmJgtl0LaV0EO0NtDDSnloTgsIvxu9KwddPDwX1WU/edit#>.
>     Anyone can comment. All discussion takes place via. a Google group
>     here <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/foss4gna_selection>.
>
>     A brief summary is as follows:
>
>     The city & venue selection process will be conducted by a committee
>     consisting of:
>
>       * The 3 most recent FOSS4G NA chairs
>       * One appointed representative from OSGeo
>       * One appointed representative from LocationTech
>
>     The committee will select the next conference location factoring
>     their votes, plus votes from attendees & sponsors from the previous
>     conference. The same committee will also select the organization to
>     run the logistics for the conference. The conference chair will be
>     elected at the previous conference by conference attendees.
>
>     If you're interested, please do join the Google group to discuss and
>     participate. Thanks in advance.
>
>     Kind regards,
>
>     Andrew
>