[OSGeo-Board] Re: [intl-discuss] Re: [OSGeo-Board] Re: [intl-discuss] Re: [OSGeo-Board] [Fwd: RE: open source GIS - SA interest group]

[Markus Neteler]

On 3/31/06, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Daniel Brookshier wrote:
> > Hi Arnulf
> >
> > Do you want a project with that or just a list? Also what is the name of
> > the project/list?
> >
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> Daniel,
>
> I think Arnulf is suggesting it be something like
> fossgis at conference.osgeo.org.  This implies (quite sensibly in my
> opinion) that the conference.osgeo.org project would support more
> than just the main international conference.  That is, it could be
> used as a resource for those setting up regional, or national
> conferences.
>
> My suggestion for list name might be "fossgis_de at conference.osgeo.org"
> to ensure it is clearly the German FOSSGIS conference, but whatever
> Arnulf wants is fine.

Hi,

I think that it is a good suggestion to add the language extension.
This would also work for future additional africa lists etc.

Markus


> Arnulf says:
> >> Hello,
> >> I am requesting to create a German language domain under osgeo.org on
> >> behalf of the results of the FOSSGIS conference 2006 plenary
> >> discussion. It was decided unanimously that the German language user
> >> community wants to have its own conference next year too and that
> >> discussion mailing lists need to be made available in German language,
> >> especially for users and decision makers (developers will probably
> >> stick with English for communication purposes).
>
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