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<div>Dear All</div>
<div>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. </div>
<div>Best regards to All of You!</div>
<div>Maria </div>
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From: Venka <venka.osgeo@gmail.com> <br>
Date: 06/09/2016 04:19 (GMT+01:00) <br>
To: conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org, board@lists.osgeo.org, discuss@lists.osgeo.org
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Subject: Re: [Board] [OSGeo-Discuss] Conference Committee F2F meeting <br>
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<div class="PlainText">Hi Guidi and all,<br>
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On 2016/08/26 1:18, Guido Stein wrote:<br>
> I have added my notes and action items from the meeting on the wiki.<br>
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> <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee_F2F_2016">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee_F2F_2016</a><br>
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Thanks for your notes of the meeting.<br>
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"Rest of World years should target a minimum of a break with a lower <br>
expectation of the share of surplus being returned to OSGeo. A larger <br>
share of any surplus should be reinvested into local OSGeo activities."<br>
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Regarding the note above, such special arrangement should apply<br>
only when FOSS4G is organized in/by communities of the<br>
Low or Lower-Middle Income Economies as defined by the World Bank and <br>
WHO [1]. Cost of living and PPP [2] is considerable different in<br>
Low or Lower-Middle Income Economies and thereby the conference fee<br>
could be considerably lower.<br>
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FOSS4G-2015 in Seoul adopted a special pricing for participants for<br>
Low or Lower-Middle Income Economies, which could be adopted in future<br>
conferences.<br>
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"Rest of the World" would surely not include high income countries <br>
listed in [1], I think.<br>
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Best<br>
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Venka<br>
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[1] <a href="https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519">https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity</a><br>
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> Hope that this helps,<br>
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> Guido<br>
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> On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 1:58 PM Steven Feldman <shfeldman@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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>> Reminder<br>
>><br>
>> Face to face meeting tomorrow at 16.00-17.00<br>
>><br>
>> Suggest we meet at the reception desk and the funds somewhere to sit<br>
>> (perhaps by the river?)<br>
>><br>
>> Agenda at <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee_F2F_2016">
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Committee_F2F_2016</a><br>
>><br>
>> Regards<br>
>> Steven<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> +44 (0) 7958 924101<br>
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