so foss4g japan and korea is ilegal????<br><br>based on my discussion with venka (the main owner of <a href="http://foss4g.org">foss4g.org</a> domain), he said about that any chapter is ok to create their own foss4g all over the world.<br>
<br>and we can see there are foss4g japan and foss4g korea, and they also conduct this event mostly yearly.<br><br>after met them, they willing to help create community here, in indonesia (Where i am stay )...<br><br>and of course, that is "hard" to go FOSS4G, which Geoff Zeiss has helped me to visit Sydney...<br>
<br>we know there are several country that have very limited budget with a lot of reason ..<br><br>should we have a small gis event, that every country can work with it, my experience that will be cool if it is one name shareable.<br>
<br>so i see the "foss4g" is the one.<br><br>but after see bruce's email...mm i think i must clarified again.<br><br><br>i think venka must forward the "criteria" of the foss4g name before give to osgeo, or dunno .. because i am not part of the event.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Bruce Bannerman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:B.Bannerman@bom.gov.au">B.Bannerman@bom.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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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, <a href="http://FOSS4G.US" target="_blank">FOSS4G.US</a>, <a href="http://FOSS4G.UK" target="_blank">FOSS4G.UK</a>, <a href="http://FOSS4G.ID" target="_blank">FOSS4G.ID</a> 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="http://frans@meruvian.org" target="_blank">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 <a href="http://foss4g.or.id" target="_blank">foss4g.or.id</a> <<a href="http://foss4g.or.id" target="_blank">http://foss4g.or.id</a>> for indonesia, and <a href="http://foss4g.jp" target="_blank">foss4g.jp</a> <<a href="http://foss4g.jp" target="_blank">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="http://frans@meruvian.org" target="_blank">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 <a href="http://jp.foss4g.org" target="_blank">jp.foss4g.org</a> <<a href="http://jp.foss4g.org" target="_blank">http://jp.foss4g.org</a>> or <a href="http://id.foss4g.org" target="_blank">id.foss4g.org</a> <<a href="http://id.foss4g.org" target="_blank">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 <a href="http://foss4g.org" target="_blank">foss4g.org</a> <<a href="http://foss4g.org" target="_blank">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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