[OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo-Conf] Should we consider all the Americas for FOSS4G2017 Conference?

[Ian Turton]

The twitter discussion came out of a confusion between USA and North
America.

Maybe there just needs to be more clarity.

Ian

On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 6:42 pm Eli Adam <eadam at co.lincoln.or.us> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Interesting idea
> >
> > What do you think the outcome would be? Seems to me that it would make it
> > would reduce competition in ‘elsewhere group’. Would it increase S
> American
> > chance of hosting a global FOSS4G?
> >
>
> That is an interesting point and question.  Also probably the real
> point of deliberation unless we increase the number of regions in the
> rotation.
>
> > My view, it makes sense to keep 1/3 FOSS4G’s in N America and 1/3 in
> Europe
> > with the 3rd in ‘elsewhere group’ - it encourages outreach to new places
> > once in 3 years while ensuring that the event is hosted in the back
> yards of
> > the 2 largest communities of contributors and users in the other years.
>
> That largely echos previous discussions,
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Reboot_2011  Reviewing the old
> debate is certainly interesting.
>
> > ______
> > Steven
> >
> >
> > On 8 Jul 2015, at 13:45, Ian Turton <ijturton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Following a brief twitter discussion - Jeff suggested I raise the idea
> here.
> >
>
> This probably didn't fit your timing on twitter, but I would have been
> far more receptive to ideas over that past several months while I
> called for input as opposed to within 36 hours of finalizing and
> releasing the RFP.
>
> > Now that we have FOSS4g-NA as a regular conference should we consider
> > opening up the "third" location in our conference rotation to be
> Americas -
> > i.e. North and South America instead of lumping South America in with
> Asia
> > and the Pacific (or the anywhere else group)?
> >
> > I can understand the thinking back in 2010 but I know there are now large
> > groups in Brazil and the Spanish language group is active in South
> America
> > too.
>
> Sao Paolo, Brazil sent a LOI in 2014 (another "North America" year)
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2013-May/002118.html
> However, there was no South American LOI in 2015 when South America
> would have had priority over North America.  Are you involved with the
> South American Community Ian?  There are large, long time, active
> groups in South America hearing from those groups would be useful.
>
> Any potential LOCs who are interested can certainly send a low-effort
> LOI.  You never know who else will send a LOI, yours could be the only
> letter.  If there are letters both from the target region and
> somewhere else, it is up to the committee if they are willing to
> consider it.
>
> Eli
>
>
>
> >
> > Ian
> >
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