[OSGeo-Conf] Logo for FOSS4G 2008

[venka.osgeo]

Hi All,

About the transfer of foss4g.org domain to OSGeo,
I just has a discussion with the other owner.

I am happy to inform that we (Shinji Masumoto and
myself) have decided to donate the domain to
OSGeo.

We do hope, however that there will be no
restrictions is made on the free usage of
the FOSS4G acronym for the legitimate purpose of
promoting Free and Open Source Software for
Geoinformatics.

I hope this settles the long discussion and we can
go ahead with continuing to with the name OSGeo.

Let us know how we can workout with the transfer.

Kind regards

Venka

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> foss4g2007.org has that many page views since January 2007.
> If you don't want to transfer it, if it's that valuable to you, then 
> don't transfer it.
> If you think it would be valuable to the foss4g conference, and help 
> osgeo, then transfer it.
> Lots of other people transfer things of value (their time, their code) 
> to osgeo to help the effort.
> P
> 
> On 3-Oct-07, at 5:02 PM, venka.osgeo wrote:
> 
>> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>> ...
>>> I don't think so. I think if our preferred domain is being held 
>>> hostage, we should find a different one.
>>
>> Not being held *hostage* but being put to good use
>> since March 2004.
>>
>> See http://www.foss4g.org/FOSS4G/
>> The site has 650594 page views since March 2004
>> and we are asking the owners to transfer the
>> domain to OSGeo.
>>
>> Venka
> 
>