I fully support this concept, Helena
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Dimitris Kotzinos <kotz...@csd.uoc.gr> wrote: > Dear all, > > I saw with great pleasure the call for organizing the 1st Latin America > FOSS4G conference. > Congrats to the friends there and let me add my offer to help in any > possible way to those who preceded me. > > The purpose of my e-mail though is a bit different. Taking into account the > fact the this year we had the North America regional conference, the central > European regional conference and now the Latin America Regional Conference I > feel that it is due time to move to a mixed scheme of an international and > regional conferences. > > Thus I propose that we have the odd years (starting from 2013) ONLY the > international event (our very successful FOSS4G conference) and the even > years (starting from 2014) ONLY the regional conferences. > Being in a world in crisis where funding for travel becomes more difficult > and where people cannot participate in too many conferences in a year I feel > that this is an acceptable compromise. > So I call upon the board to decide on this proposal and, of course, all of > you to argue in favor :) or against! > > One final note for the European participation on this list: I suggest that > we start organizing a regional European level FOSS4G (if there is agreement > also integrating in it the Central-Eastern Europe event) starting from 2014. > I volunteer Greece to host the first such event (OK, given that things in > Greece will not turn out too bad :)). > If there is an initial agreement we can organize things a bit more. > > Thanks for the consideration of both proposals, > > Dimitris Kotzinos > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Helena Mitasova Associate Professor Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University 1125 Jordan Hall NCSU Box 8208 Raleigh, NC 27695-8208 http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/ email: hmit...@ncsu.edu ph: 919-513-1327 (no voicemail) fax 919 515-7802 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss