[Board] conference naming?

[Chris Holmes]

Arnulf Christl wrote:
> 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... ;-)

I wasn't even aware the discussion was happening.  Looking at those 
archives I see Allan recommended to send ConfCom's decision to the full 
membership, but I don't think that ever happened?  I personally don't 
have a strong stake in it, I just thought OSGeo was the sensible name 
and was curious why it was being called FOSS4G.  But as long as the 
ConfCom did think about it and decide that's what it should be I'm fine 
with it.  But would recommend maybe getting a slightly wider group for 
something as major as the name of our most public event.  I will note 
that the ConfCom seems to have a lot of people involved in the last 
conference, who obviously like the FOSS4G name as they chose it to be 
the name of their conference.

Chris

> 
> Best regards, Arnulf.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:   board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Frank Warmerdam 
>> (External)
>> Sent:   Sun 2/4/2007 4:21 PM
>> To:     Chris Holmes
>> Cc:     board at lists.osgeo.org
>> 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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