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

[Massimiliano Cannata]

I agree with you Steven,
NA + EU + others

Numbers of participants justify this choice.

Continents could still get their annual conference.

Maxi
Il 08/Lug/2015 18:05 "Steven Feldman" <shfeldman at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> 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?
>
> 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.
> ______
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Ian
>
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