[OSGeo-Conf] RfP FOSS4G2024

[María Arias de Reyna]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 9:01 AM Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Il lun 12 dic 2022, 10:42 María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com> ha
> scritto:
>
>> I have only one question: are we then repeating North America? Because
>> 2023 was NA year, we just didn't get any proposals.
>>
>> By giving another opportunity to NA for 2024 we are delaying the
>> "Not-EU-Not-NA" region opportunity. Should we maybe have a shared "this is
>> not EU-not NA, but if you are NA you are welcome to try" round?
>>
>
> I have some questions about this topic:
> - Do you think this rotation is still needed? After COVID people is a
> little bit scared to organise so big conference.
> - And second do we still want to give half changes to not EU-NA countries
> to organise and promote foss4g to their own countries? If we want to have
> rotation I would like to propose 4 year cycle, EU-OT-NA-OT
>

Another related topic is if we want to maybe change the way we are defining
those regions.

Because for example Mexico is NA but I guess the expected revenue is closer
to what you would expect from organizing it in... Argentina?  Or maybe not
because it is geographically closer to USA? But then by the same criteria
Morocco should count as Europe because we are really close and it is cheap
to travel there.

And I know this is a very delicate topic because criteria may be subjective
if we are not careful, even xenophobic. Maybe we should try to be less
geographically focused and more focused on economy ranking? Or have a
scoring criteria that has several perspectives into account? Like, if you
are hosting in the same continent as last FOSS4G, you won't get as much
points as if it is in the other side of the world.


>
> Probably this discussion should be done for the next RfP because now it is
> late
>
> Best
> Luca
>
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