[OSGeo-Conf] Logo for FOSS4G 2008

[Dean Mikkelsen]

Hi everyone,
 
I would suggest foss4geo.orgto make things simple.
 
All conferences afterwards can be titled foss4geo2008.org, foss4geo2009.org, etc. or they can be tied under the foss4geo.orgtree as such:  foss4geo.org/2008, foss4geo.org/2009, etc.

The domain is available and one can easily move forward with the above suggestion, without stepping on existing sites that are promoting FOSS for Geospatial.
 
Cheers,
Dean

----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Birch <Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca>
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 3:48 pm
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Conf] Logo for FOSS4G 2008
To: conference_dev at lists.osgeo.org

> Full disclosure:  I feel that we would be better served by 
> using OSGeo
> as part of the conference's name, primarily because of the branding
> feedback cycle this would generate.  Also, because I had a 
> _really_ hard
> time publicising foss4g.  Anything with a number-
> substitution in the
> title is extremely hard to communicate verbally, especially for things
> like URLs.  "fossforg" anyone?
> 
> In light of my opinion, this will probably come across as sour grapes,
> but I am not entirely happy about the way that the original 
> decision was
> made.  It seems that it was _not_ by committee, but by 
> anyone who
> happened to be listening on the committee mailing list at the 
> time and
> wanted to vote (the number of votes did not tally with the 
> number of
> committee members)
> 
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2006-
> November/000150.html
> 
> Apart from this (possibly irrelavent) discrepancy, I feel that the
> conference branding decision should at a minimum have involved the
> visibility committee, and (not sure if this was done last time)
> ratification by the board.  Reading the motion to form the 
> committee,I'm not convinced that the naming decision was 
> explicitly within its
> mandate
> (http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Motion_to_form_Conference_Committee)
> though it could be argued that it was an implicit responsibility.
> 
> In my opinion, this decision should involve the entire charter
> membership, like the initial branding of OSGeo, or possibly even the
> entire self-identifying membership.
> 
> Jason
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff McKenna
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Logo for FOSS4G 2008
> 
> > 
> > Then perhaps the naming debate could continue after that :)
> > 
> 
> I'm not so sure of that. I think we handled the naming issue decision
> properly.
> 
> --
> jeff
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Dean C. Mikkelsen, B.Sc., P.Eng.
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