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

[David Fawcett]

I know that we have a few Conference Committee members from outside of
North America and Europe, do any of you have thoughts? Dar es Salaam team?

David.

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Guido Stein <guido at guidostein.com> wrote:

> +1 "Other Regions"
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 6:11 AM Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Good suggestion
>> ______
>>
>> Steven
>>
>>
>> On 24 Feb 2017, at 10:42, Jeroen Ticheler <jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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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