+1. I will be happy to help Greek friends in organizing the meeting. Anyway I'm wondering if sooner or later is possible to organize a Mediterranean conference.... Maria
2012/6/15 Dimitris Kotzinos <kotz...@csd.uoc.gr> > 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<http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss> >
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