[OSGeo-Conf] Logo for FOSS4G 2008

[Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)]

On Thu, October 4, 2007 21:05, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> Venka, Shinja, thank you so much, that's excellent news and will make
> running foss4g in the future so much easier!
>
> P

Hello,
I join Paul in thanking you, this really is good news!

Best Regards,
Arnulf.

> 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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