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

[Guido Stein]

+1 "Other Regions"

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 6:11 AM Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good suggestion
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> On 24 Feb 2017, at 10:42, Jeroen Ticheler <jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net>
> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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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