[Board] conference naming?

[Gary Lang]

Arnulf,

It is day to day business for everyone there. Thus, in my view, it's
preaching to the converted and possibly not that pragmatic, whereas
promoting OSGeo and its accomplishments is a bit more work and has its
own payoff (i.e. why should I sponsor this? Oh yeah, they sponsor the
conference). 

Thus, had I been asked, I would have said this and voted for the name to
be the OSGeo Conference.

Gary

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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-----
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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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