<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>2004 event at Bangkok is the starter for FOSS4G, which has grown GRASS and FOSS4G in Asia. Venka along with Markus are the pioneers of this line of thinking. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, November 23, 2013 2:25 AM, Jeff
McKenna <jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">Answer is Venka, who coined the phrase/ideology for the 2004 Bangkok<br>event under the FOSS4G name. If you expand that a little, I would say it<br>includes Venka, Markus Neteler and myself, who decided to merge<br>communities to create the annual FOSS4G event.<br><br>But we all do follow the beliefs of Venka set back in 2004: anyone can<br>use the FOSS4G brand as long as it promotes Open Source geospatial.<br><br>I just returned from FOSS4G Tokyo, Osaka, and Korea, and Venka was there<br>for all of them. Although maybe not so known on the NA/Europe part of<br>the world, Venka is a true leader and very respected in Asia. We must<br>indeed follow his vision and respect his FOSS4G beliefs (which long ago<br>became mine as well).<br><br>Any further discussion/decisions should/must involve Venka's input.<br><br>-jeff<br><br><br><br>On 2013-11-21
7:18 PM, Steven Feldman wrote:<br>> Jachym<br>> <br>> Who is the person or organisation that "owns" FOSS4G?<br>> ______<br>> Steven<br>> <br>> <br>> On 21 Nov 2013, at 20:00, <a ymailto="mailto:board-request@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:board-request@lists.osgeo.org">board-request@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>> <mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:board-request@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:board-request@lists.osgeo.org">board-request@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br>> <br>>> "FOSS4G" brand is clearly owned by someone else, than OSGeo. OSGeo has<br>>> no right to the brand and till now it was always respected. That it<br>>> might not look like that from outside does not mean, it is not true.<br>> <br>> <br>_______________________________________________<br>Board mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org">Board@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a
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