<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear all,<div>I think the same that SAC is not responsible for this domain</div><div>administration.</div><div><br></div><div>I think that some peoples remember that during the FOSS4G in Syndney</div><div>I amongst other already pointed out this situation. Indeed, during the FOSS4G </div><div>2009 the situation was exactly the same. I also took advantage to be in Japan</div><div>with Arnulf in 2009 to mention one more time that the situation was this one.</div><div>Hopefully, some months after the link was corrected. At this moment, I thought</div><div>that it cannot be acceptable that a single company can take advantage of the </div><div>OSGeo name this way.</div><div><br></div><div>Note that now, IMO it is perfectly acceptable to be represented by a company </div><div>like the one which is currently accessible via the <a href="http://osgeo.eu">osgeo.eu</a> link. As this company </div><div>did, do and will do a lot for funding / promoting / being involved into OSGeo. </div><div>This company is representative of OSGeo.</div><div><br></div><div>Nevertheless, I think that the page on which user arrive should not be a general </div><div>presentation of the company but maybe the description of their involvement in </div><div>OSGeo. I mean, a page more dedicated / specific to OSGeo. Honestly, if we look </div><div>at the <a href="http://osgeo.eu">osgeo.eu</a> page, the OSGeo logo looks lost amongst all the other logos </div><div>(yes, it is here, the small one on your left).</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to insist on something here. As the <a href="http://osgeo.eu">osgeo.eu</a> never got any web site,</div><div>I think that there was nothing done volontary here. I mean that I think that this is</div><div>only an error made by the guy which setup the new dns entries and that's it. Or</div><div>maybe I prefer to think that is the case ... I don't know :)</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, I like a lot the Arnulf sentence published in 2009, I think it is good to </div><div>keep it in mind and which say a lot : </div><div><br></div><div> "OSGeo is nothing without you doing it."</div><div><br></div><div>Making OSGeo a redirection to a company can be one way, I don't know.</div><div>Nevertheless, it should imply some checking by OSGeo members to make sure </div><div>that the pages pointed by osgeo.* are really dedicated to OSGeo. </div><div><br></div><div>How to deal with other european companies which should appreciate to participate </div><div>in the effort to promote OSGeo in €urope ... Things can become difficult if a single</div><div>company get the full access to the <a href="http://osgeo.eu">osgeo.eu</a> domain and don't want to share it.</div><div>I'm sure that, in this case, this is not the subject, but if we are thinking in a general</div><div>level, we should notify this also. </div><div><br></div><div>What about making all osgeo.* domains the OSGeo's property ? Then OSGeo SAC </div><div>will be responsible to setup DNS for all the dedicated OSGeo sites ... Adding more </div><div>work but provide more control over *our OSGeo name*. Community taking control</div><div>on its own name make sense to me.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>Le 19 nov. 2011 à 02:23, Frank Warmerdam a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Venka,<br><br>If local chapters open a ticket with SAC, then I<br>or others can setup a redirect from <a href="http://X.osgeo.org">X.osgeo.org</a><br>to another site. I do not believe that OSGeo SAC<br>controls the <a href="http://osgeo.eu">osgeo.eu</a> site. In fact our domain admin<br>cannot generally do anything except the major<br>domains (.com, .org, .net).<br><br>Best regards,<br><br><br>On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan<br><<a href="mailto:raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp">raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Dear All,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Nice to see the OSGeo Local Chapter pages growing.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">We now have <a href="http://osgeo.jp">osgeo.jp</a>, <a href="http://osgeo.kr">osgeo.kr</a>, <a href="http://osgeo.cn">osgeo.cn</a>, osgeo.in, osgeo.id,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://osgeo.eu">osgeo.eu</a> and perhaps several more that I am not<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">aware off.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://jp.osgeo.org">jp.osgeo.org</a> redirects to Japan Local Chapter page<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(<a href="http://osgeo.jp">osgeo.jp</a>) and it would be nice to see <a href="http://cn.osgeo.org">cn.osgeo.org</a>,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://in.osgeo.org">in.osgeo.org</a> etc. redirecting to respective<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Local Chapter pages.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Strangely, <a href="http://osgeo.eu">osgeo.eu</a> redirects to <a href="http://camptocamp.com">camptocamp.com</a>.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I think <a href="http://osgeo.eu">osgeo.eu</a> should redirect to a page showing<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a list of the very active Local Chapters that we have<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in the EU zone.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Best<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Venka<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Discuss mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br><br>-- <br>---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------<br>I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, <a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</a><br>light and sound - activate the windows | <a href="http://pobox.com/~warmerdam">http://pobox.com/~warmerdam</a><br>and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer<br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Gérald Fenoy</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:gerald.fenoy@geolabs.fr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">gerald.fenoy@geolabs.fr</span></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div></span></div></div></div></div></body></html>