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

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Maybe name it "Other Regions" instead. Still brief and clear without making them "the rest" ;-)
Cheers,
Jeroen

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> Op 24 feb. 2017 om 09:41 heeft Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Brevity is important IMO - North America, Europe & Rest of World makes sense, is clear and brief
> 
> I don’t think RoW suggests that are geographically illiterate, far from it
> ______
> Steven
> 
> 
>> On 23 Feb 2017, at 21:12, Guido Stein <gstein at appgeo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I think labels are useful. I think rest of the world makes it sound like we don't know geography and are Euro-NorthAmerican Centric.
>> 
>> It would be nice to have a better label than "rest of the world".
>> 
>> Looking for a comparable, the world bank uses the following regions (http://www.worldbank.org/en/about/annual-report/regions):
>> 
>> Africa
>> East Asia and Pacific
>> Europe and Central Asia
>> Latin America and the Caribbean
>> Middle East and North Africa
>> South Asia
>> 
>> Perhaps we can use this tact:
>> 
>> North America
>> Europe
>> Africa, Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Caribbean, Middle East (AAPLACME)
>> 
>> 
>> -Guido
>> 
>>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 2:29 PM Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:
>>> 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
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