[Board] conference naming?
Arnulf Christl
arnulf.christl at wheregroup.com
Mon Feb 5 02:02:09 PST 2007
Gary Lang wrote:
> I missed that. Where is the minutes of that meeting?
>
> Thx
Start here to get the full story:
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2006-November/thread.html
Guess what, I was part of the subversive group that tries to dilute the OSGeo brand name and I could not refrain from having a strong position in favor of having the term Free in the title. So if you need to blame somebody for supporting such a stupid idea blame me. And next time join the discussion in time... ;-)
Best regards,
Arnulf.
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> From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Frank Warmerdam
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> Sent: Sun 2/4/2007 4:21 PM
> To: Chris Holmes
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> Subject: Re: [Board] conference naming?
>
> Chris Holmes wrote:
> > This is kind of random, but weren't we going to call the next conference
> > the OSGeo conference? As that was the name the year before, and it also
> > fits with our name, becomes our thing? But it looks like it's become
> > foss4g again - http://www.foss4g2007.org/. Was that a conscious
> decision?
>
> Chris,
>
> This was the product of a rather heated debate, followed by a vote by
> the conference committee. So yes, it was a conscious decision.
>
> Best regards,
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