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

[shshin at gaia3d.com]

Hi all, 

As an Asian person personally I don’t care much about the name itself, I prefer Jeroen’s suggestion ‘Other regions’ though. 

Regards, 
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보낸 사람: David Fawcett
보낸 날짜: 2017년 2월 25일 토요일 오전 1:29
받는 사람: Guido Stein
참조: OSGeo-Conf; Eli Adam
제목: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Naming the three regions of FOSS4G rotation

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
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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" ;-)
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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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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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