[OSGeo-Conf] RfP FOSS4G2024

[massimiliano cannata]

Dear all,
My 2 cents...

Foss4g is the main conference of osgeo and provide:
- funding for the function of osgeo
- visibility and credibility to the community

I'm 100% for having often outside EU-NA but then we should have strong
financial and political support by third parties: e.g. Europe Community,
United Nations, World Bank, etc...

We need to guarantee sufficient number of participants and sufficient
revenue while keeping affordable to take part in it.

Finally do not forget we have 'continental' conferences, where maybe we
should think to offer better support to non EU-NA to boost communities
(e.g. Foss4gA is a great example of working community).

Maxi



Il ven 16 dic 2022, 10:31 Adam Steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> 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:
> >
> > 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.
> >
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