[OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Conference Committee F2F meeting

[Maria Antonia Brovelli]

Dear All
I agree with the position of Venka. Moreover in my opinion conferences have to be as much as possible diverse and  inclusive. This means that we need to reduce costs in such a way that everybody, who is interested, can come.
Best regards to All of You!
Maria



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From: Venka <venka.osgeo at gmail.com>
Date: 06/09/2016 04:19 (GMT+01:00)
To: conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org, board at lists.osgeo.org, discuss at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Board] [OSGeo-Discuss] Conference Committee F2F meeting

Hi Guidi and all,

On 2016/08/26 1:18, Guido Stein wrote:
> I have added my notes and action items from the meeting on the wiki.
>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee_F2F_2016

Thanks for your notes of the meeting.

"Rest of World years should target a minimum of a break with a lower
expectation of the share of surplus being returned to OSGeo. A larger
share of any surplus should be reinvested into local OSGeo activities."

Regarding the note above, such special arrangement should apply
only when FOSS4G is organized in/by communities of the
Low or Lower-Middle Income Economies as defined by the World Bank and
WHO [1]. Cost of living and PPP [2] is considerable different in
Low or Lower-Middle Income Economies and thereby the conference fee
could be considerably lower.

FOSS4G-2015 in Seoul adopted a special pricing for participants for
Low or Lower-Middle Income Economies, which could be adopted in future
conferences.

"Rest of the World" would surely not include high income countries
listed in [1], I think.

Best

Venka

[1] https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity

>
> Hope that this helps,
>
> Guido
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 1:58 PM Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Reminder
>>
>> Face to face meeting tomorrow at 16.00-17.00
>>
>> Suggest we meet at the reception desk and the funds somewhere to sit
>> (perhaps by the river?)
>>
>>  Agenda at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee_F2F_2016
>>
>> Regards
>> Steven
>>
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