[OSGeo-Conf] Naming the three regions of FOSS4G rotation
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 12:48:58 PST 2017
I don't feel strongly about this, but:
Re name:
+0 for "Rest of World"
+1 for "Other Regions"
Re order listed, the "Other regions" should be described last as it only
makes sense after the other two options have been presented. So order
should be:
Europe,
North America,
Other Regions.
On 25/2/17 3:38 am, shshin at gaia3d.com wrote:
>
> 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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>
> 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
> <mailto:guido at guidostein.com>> wrote:
>
> +1 "Other Regions"
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 6:11 AM Steven Feldman
> <shfeldman at gmail.com <mailto:shfeldman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Good suggestion
>
> ______
>
>
> Steven
>
> On 24 Feb 2017, at 10:42, Jeroen Ticheler
> <jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> <mailto:eadam at co.lincoln.or.us>> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Eli Adam
> <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us
> <mailto: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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