[OSGeo-Conf] Fwd: FOSS4G 2007

[Paul Ramsey]

http://www.osgeo.org/conferences/2007 sounds good to me... it's almost like the 
web was designed for this kind of thing :)

Quoting Allan Doyle <adoyle at eogeo.org>:

> 
> On Oct 27, 2006, at 14:33, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 
> > Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> >> I received a brief note from a member, bringing up the issue of
> >> domain names:
> >>> Just caught the RfP announcement for 07. Caused me to think -
> >>> shouldn't OSGeo register the domain name foss4g2007.org soon as?
> >> I explained there is still debate about the naming, but thought
> >> I'd pass this on to you anyway.
> >
> > I think you'd be better with a single generic domain name (or a
> > subdomain of osgeo.org) instead or registering new domains for each
> > year. Even if you manage to register foss4g2007.org in time, and
> > pre-register the 2008 and 2009 names now as well, someone could go
> > and register the 2010 or later years before you and you'll
> > eventually be stuck anyway.
> >
> > OTOH, with something like <conferencename>.org or
> > <conferencename>.osgeo.org you can create subdirectories in the
> > website or subdomains for each year and never worry again about
> > domain name registration.
> 
> Right. And not have to maintain the other name year in and year out
> to keep a record of past conferences. E.g. http://www.eogeo.org/
> Workshops/ only costs $12/year. If we had one per year, it would be
> up to $120/year now and growing.
> 
> 	Allan
> 
> >
> > My 0.02$
> >
> > Daniel
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