[OSGeo-Conf] RfP FOSS4G2024

[Adam Steer]

Being a citizen of other, thinking differently about how to define
FOSS4G locations is a great idea :)

People from other spend a lot of resources to reach a FOSS4G in the
north. Also if FOSS4G is held in other regions of other - eg southeast
other (2009 location) to southwestern other (2021 location), or
southeast other to mid central other ( 2018 location), or mid central
other to southeast other or really most parts of other to other parts
of other - all those transits are still really expensive. I'm not even
sure someone from mid central other would be able to fund attending a
conference in southeast other, because southeast other is expensive
even on a global scale, and even more expensive (with possibly more
visa issues) than getting from mid central other to Europe!

Regional events are one answer, and yes, they're great! They are still
disconnected from the global community - or even other parts of other.

I like Maria's suggestion of thinking more broadly about defining
'where' FOSS4G happens, and helping to priorities different regions.

Perhaps another solution is for OSGeo to decouple 'FOSS4G' and 'main
source of OSGeo funding'. If we are not relying so much on profit from
FOSS4G every year, then it seems we open a lot of opportunities for
putting FOSS4G in other more often. I'm really interested to hear your
thoughts about that - is it something we can achieve as an
organisation in 2023? Is it something we *should* aim for?

Let's keep these discussions going somehow! It is great to see them on
the table.

Thanks :)

Adam

On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 at 09:43, María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 9:01 AM Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> Il lun 12 dic 2022, 10:42 María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com> ha scritto:
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>>> I have only one question: are we then repeating North America? Because 2023 was NA year, we just didn't get any proposals.
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>>> 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?
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>> 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
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> Another related topic is if we want to maybe change the way we are defining those regions.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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