MapServer Foundation - Name of . . .

[Paul Scott]

Errr,

Foundation for Open Geospatial Software (FOGS) ?

--Paul

>>> "Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]" <Tom.Kralidis at EC.GC.CA> 11/30/05 9:56 PM
>>>
How about:

"Geo Software Foundation" (GSF)

..Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List 
> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Basques
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 November, 2005 14:46
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer Foundation - 
> Name of . . .
> 
> 
> Another version . . .
> 
> just:
> 
> "Spatial Foundation"  
> 
> Pretty all inclusive as far as being an umbrella ORG.   Kinda 
> forks off 
> into the product naming a bit easier too.  The MapServer 
> naming in the 
> Foundation aspect seems to be a limiting aspect IMO.
> 
> SF-MapServer
> SF-MapGuide
> Sf-Whatever . . .
> 
> 
> Still pondering . . .
> 
> bobb
> 
> 
> Bob Basques wrote:
> 
> >Hmmm, how about . . .
> >
> >"Open Spatial Foundation"
> >
> >Kinda has a ring to it, short acronym OSF, seems easy to remember, in
> >acronym form anyway.
> >
> >Still thinking about it though . . .
> >
> >bobb
> >
> >Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Why limit it to webmapping only? This would exclude things like 
> >>PostGIS, = uDIG etc. from joining.
> >>
> >>My suggestion would be Open Source GIS Foundation or Open 
> Source GIS = 
> >>Software Foundation.
> >>
> >>Best regards,
> >>Bart
> >>    
> >>
>