<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Brevity is important IMO - North America, Europe & Rest of World makes sense, is clear and brief<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t think RoW suggests that are geographically illiterate, far from it<br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Feb 2017, at 21:12, Guido Stein <<a href="mailto:gstein@appgeo.com" class="">gstein@appgeo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It would be nice to have a better label than "rest of the world".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Looking for a comparable, the world bank uses the following regions (<a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/about/annual-report/regions" class="">http://www.worldbank.org/en/about/annual-report/regions</a>):</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Africa</div><div class="">East Asia and Pacific</div><div class="">Europe and Central Asia</div><div class="">Latin America and the Caribbean</div><div class="">Middle East and North Africa</div><div class="">South Asia</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Perhaps we can use this tact:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">North America</div><div class="">Europe</div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Africa, Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Caribbean, Middle East (AAPLACME)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Guido</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 2:29 PM Eli Adam <<a href="mailto:eadam@co.lincoln.or.us" class="">eadam@co.lincoln.or.us</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Eli Adam <<a href="mailto:eadam@co.lincoln.or.us" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">eadam@co.lincoln.or.us</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> Hi all,<br class="gmail_msg">
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> What would we like to name the three regions of FOSS4G rotation?<br class="gmail_msg">
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Any ideas?<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Commonly these have been called North America, Rest of World, and<br class="gmail_msg">
> Europe. Could there be a better term for Rest of World? Any<br class="gmail_msg">
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Should we formalize what has been commonly used, North America, Rest<br class="gmail_msg">
of World, and Europe?<br class="gmail_msg">
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> geographers here?<br class="gmail_msg">
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So I troll the whole list asking if there are any geographers and no<br class="gmail_msg">
one responds; well done to ignore the trolling, maybe it got the whole<br class="gmail_msg">
message ignored.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> On the order of the regions, I think that the order should be stated<br class="gmail_msg">
> in the same order as the rotation (as I've done above) which still<br class="gmail_msg">
> leaves three options.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Thoughts and suggestions?<br class="gmail_msg">
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Partly what prompted me raising this question was the "About FOSS4G"<br class="gmail_msg">
section in this news announcement <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/node/1752" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/node/1752</a> which<br class="gmail_msg">
is for a conference in a continent which FOSS4G reportedly doesn't<br class="gmail_msg">
visit. "FOSS4G rotates around the world each year, throughout 3<br class="gmail_msg">
regions of the Americas, Europe, and Asia/South Pacific."<br class="gmail_msg">
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In specific documents like the RFP, we could use "North America, Rest<br class="gmail_msg">
of World, and Europe" and in generic things like news announcements we<br class="gmail_msg">
could say something like "FOSS4G rotates around the world each year,<br class="gmail_msg">
having visited five continents so far".<br class="gmail_msg">
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Eli<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Thanks, Eli<br class="gmail_msg">
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