What a good idea Maria ! Such a Mediterannean regional event could may be gather italin, greek, spanish and french local chapters, and may be others. Very good idea.
Best, Nick 2012/6/16 Maria Brovelli <brv...@gmail.com> > +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> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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