[Board] conference naming?

[Arnulf Christl]

Chris Holmes wrote:
> 
> 
> 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

Hi Chris,
you are completely right in all that you say. There will be other possibilities where we can practice a more public discussion and will hopefully do so. I remember that we were in hurry because we did not get going at all and I remember that I felt that every angle to the problem was well represented. 

My personal itch was that the term Free Software appear again and again so that people *have* to think about it for a while. I feel this is important because I know so very many who practice Open Source in every day life but never really understood it. So this is all about educating people and I know that many will simply not care or fear that it could be anti business and so on. Additionally it bothers me that I must sound like a cracked record because you know all of this and it is day to day business to you. :-) To many it is not and we need to tell them. 

>> Best regards, Arnulf.
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> 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
>>> Cc:     board at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Subject:        Re: [Board] conference naming?
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>>> 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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