[OSGeo-Conf] Fwd: FOSS4G 2007

Markus Neteler neteler.osgeo at gmail.com
Sat Oct 28 13:05:22 EDT 2006


On 10/28/06, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> venka.osgeo wrote:
> > and making www.foss4g.org meta-level site,
> > paving the way to make it the one-stop-shop
> > for FOSS4G.
>
> Folks,
>
> This is exactly the sort of erosion of OSGeo's branding that I'm worried
> about.   With the RFP issued we have a bit of time to get our committee
> house in order.  Do we want to settle on a conference name now?
...

A compromise suggestion (it probably already appeared here) would be:
http://foss4g.osgeo.org

- our domain
- no need to encode the year in the host name
- foss4g and osgeo combined

I would be really sad if we drop the "f" for freedom.

Markus




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