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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I don’t like the idea of having multiple variants to the FOSS4G name.<BR>
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I believe that it weakens and detracts from the value of FOSS4G as **the** international event that brings open source spatial people together in a ‘gathering of the tribes’.<BR>
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As a former organiser of FOSS4G-2009, if I was faced with the opportunity to again host the prestigious FOSS4G event, as things stand at present I would not get involved. This is due to the weakening of the brand and confusion in the marketplace. For example, do I go to FOSS4G, FOSS4G.AU, FOSS4G.US, FOSS4G.UK, FOSS4G.ID etc etc? What is the difference between them?<BR>
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We have colleagues who are trying to organise FOSS4G-2012. All of this discussion is making their job much, much harder than it needs to be. <BR>
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Lets get behind them and support their hard work. It is certainly not easy to organise such an event and takes considerable effort and devotion.<BR>
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By all means hold regional events. These are very important for spreading information.<BR>
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But please let’s find a different name.<BR>
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Bruce Bannerman<BR>
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On 18/11/11 3:38 PM, "Frans Thamura" <<a href="frans@meruvian.org">frans@meruvian.org</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>got another idea<BR>
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should we buy foss4g.or.id <<a href="http://foss4g.or.id">http://foss4g.or.id</a>> for indonesia, and foss4g.jp <<a href="http://foss4g.jp">http://foss4g.jp</a>> for japan?<BR>
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but i love have a consolidation work together<BR>
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Frans Thamura <<a href="frans@meruvian.org">frans@meruvian.org</a>> wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>> i want to bring FOSS4G to bigger one, all related to GIS.. but based on Open.<BR>
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I definitely second this.<BR>
Without this concept, we would be isolated ourself from whole geospatial ocean.<BR>
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thx toru-san ..<BR>
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that will be honour for me to create FOSS4G Indonesia, i believe can start next year.. :) <BR>
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this is bigger scope and better value to conduct it<BR>
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but i still get unanswer question regarding to FOSS4G.org, why tokyo and osaka & korea are not in the website.<BR>
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which venka said that open to anyone to create local event using FOSS4G name.<BR>
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I think that will be cool, if here we can have subdomain, like jp.foss4g.org <<a href="http://jp.foss4g.org">http://jp.foss4g.org</a>> or id.foss4g.org <<a href="http://id.foss4g.org">http://id.foss4g.org</a>> (indonesia)<BR>
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so all consolidated there..<BR>
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any idea for this request<BR>
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and i see also foss4g.org <<a href="http://foss4g.org">http://foss4g.org</a>> main website need touch to make it better, to bring wave to the world.<BR>
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any idea all?<BR>
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