[OSGeo-Conf] "OSGeo Teach-in

[Daniel Morissette]

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 
> (a) The conference committee should decide on whether third-party
> promoted "OSGeo" events are acceptable at all, and
> (b) If they are acceptable, what decision process should be applied to
> third-party events.
> 

As I wrote on the #osgeo IRC channel the other day, my take on this is 
that I much welcome Paul/Jeff's teach-in initiative, I think it will 
fill a real need and I don't fear the impact on the international OSGeo 
conference which is international and likely to come back to one's 
neighborhood only once every 5 years or so. However I do fear that 
opening the door to use of the brand by events on which OSGeo has no 
control involves a high risk of tarnishing the brand if one of those 
events screws up. I trust Paul/Jeff to do an awesome job in this 
specific case but it will be hard to say no to the next one requesting 
the same thing even if we have doubts about their ability to do a good 
job in representing OSGeo.

Daniel
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