[OSGeo-Conf] Fwd: FOSS4G 2007

[Arnulf Christl]

Allan Doyle wrote:
> 
> 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

Someone get this man a scotch please.

:-)

>> 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/
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