[OSGeo-Conf] Logo for FOSS4G 2008

[Paul Ramsey]

Venka, Shinja, thank you so much, that's excellent news and will make 
running foss4g in the future so much easier!

P

venka.osgeo wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> About the transfer of foss4g.org domain to OSGeo,
> I just has a discussion with the other owner.
> 
> I am happy to inform that we (Shinji Masumoto and
> myself) have decided to donate the domain to
> OSGeo.
> 
> We do hope, however that there will be no
> restrictions is made on the free usage of
> the FOSS4G acronym for the legitimate purpose of
> promoting Free and Open Source Software for
> Geoinformatics.
> 
> I hope this settles the long discussion and we can
> go ahead with continuing to with the name OSGeo.
> 
> Let us know how we can workout with the transfer.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Venka
> 
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>> foss4g2007.org has that many page views since January 2007.
>> If you don't want to transfer it, if it's that valuable to you, then 
>> don't transfer it.
>> If you think it would be valuable to the foss4g conference, and help 
>> osgeo, then transfer it.
>> Lots of other people transfer things of value (their time, their code) 
>> to osgeo to help the effort.
>> P
>>
>> On 3-Oct-07, at 5:02 PM, venka.osgeo wrote:
>>
>>> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> I don't think so. I think if our preferred domain is being held 
>>>> hostage, we should find a different one.
>>>
>>> Not being held *hostage* but being put to good use
>>> since March 2004.
>>>
>>> See http://www.foss4g.org/FOSS4G/
>>> The site has 650594 page views since March 2004
>>> and we are asking the owners to transfer the
>>> domain to OSGeo.
>>>
>>> Venka
>>
>>
> 


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