[OSGeo-Conf] Naming the three regions of FOSS4G rotation
Till Adams
till.adams at fossgis.de
Sat Feb 25 03:36:47 PST 2017
same for me: +1 for "other regions"
Am 24.02.2017 15:39, schrieb Guido Stein:
> +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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