[Board] FOSS4G Brand?

[Jeff McKenna]

Answer is Venka, who coined the phrase/ideology for the 2004 Bangkok
event under the FOSS4G name. If you expand that a little, I would say it
includes Venka, Markus Neteler and myself, who decided to merge
communities to create the annual FOSS4G event.

But we all do follow the beliefs of Venka set back in 2004: anyone can
use the FOSS4G brand as long as it promotes Open Source geospatial.

I just returned from FOSS4G Tokyo, Osaka, and Korea, and Venka was there
for all of them.  Although maybe not so known on the NA/Europe part of
the world, Venka is a true leader and very respected in Asia.  We must
indeed follow his vision and respect his FOSS4G beliefs (which long ago
became mine as well).

Any further discussion/decisions should/must involve Venka's input.

-jeff



On 2013-11-21 7:18 PM, Steven Feldman wrote:
> Jachym
> 
> Who is the person or organisation that "owns" FOSS4G?
> ______
> Steven
> 
> 
> On 21 Nov 2013, at 20:00, board-request at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:board-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
>> "FOSS4G" brand is clearly owned by someone else, than OSGeo. OSGeo has
>> no right to the brand and till now it was always respected. That it
>> might not look like that from outside does not mean, it is not true.
> 
>