[OSGeo-Conf] Fwd: FOSS4G 2007

[Allan Doyle]

On Oct 27, 2006, at 14:42, Paul Ramsey wrote:

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

No, wait!

http://www.osgeo.org/confmgr? 
SERVICE=conf&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.1.2

then

http://www.osgeo.org/confmgr?SERVICE=conf&REQUEST=GetAgenda&YEAR=2004

etc.

It's sooo much more flexible. And we could add in a way to get maps  
of the participants.

	Allan

>
> 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
>>> --
>>> Daniel Morissette
>>> http://www.mapgears.com/
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>> -
>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe at conference.osgeo.org
>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help at conference.osgeo.org
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Allan Doyle
>> +1.781.433.2695
>> adoyle at eogeo.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe at conference.osgeo.org
>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help at conference.osgeo.org
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe at conference.osgeo.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help at conference.osgeo.org
>

-- 
Allan Doyle
+1.781.433.2695
adoyle at eogeo.org