[OSGeo-Conf] Naming the three regions of FOSS4G rotation

[Eli Adam]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What would we like to name the three regions of FOSS4G rotation?

Any ideas?

> Commonly these have been called North America, Rest of World, and
> Europe.  Could there be a better term for Rest of World?  Any

Should we formalize what has been commonly used, North America, Rest
of World, and Europe?

> geographers here?

So I troll the whole list asking if there are any geographers and no
one responds; well done to ignore the trolling, maybe it got the whole
message ignored.

>
> On the order of the regions, I think that the order should be stated
> in the same order as the rotation (as I've done above) which still
> leaves three options.
>
> Thoughts and suggestions?

Partly what prompted me raising this question was the "About FOSS4G"
section in this news announcement http://www.osgeo.org/node/1752 which
is for a conference in a continent which FOSS4G reportedly doesn't
visit.  "FOSS4G rotates around the world each year, throughout 3
regions of the Americas, Europe, and Asia/South Pacific."

In specific documents like the RFP, we could use "North America, Rest
of World, and Europe" and in generic things like news announcements we
could say something like "FOSS4G rotates around the world each year,
having visited five continents so far".

Eli

>
> Thanks, Eli