[OSGeo-Conf] Motion Regarding FOSS4G-CEE Name

[Peter Batty]

I am not quite sure if I am officially on the conference committee yet, but
I vote +1 if I have a vote.

I recognize the concerns over potentially diluting the global FOSS4G, but
the reality is that that great majority of people don't have the opportunity
to travel to the other side of the world to attend a FOSS4G event (I will
publish more numbers on this shortly, but in all cases so far, a substantial
majority of attendees at every global event has been from the continent
hosting the event). I think that expanding local and regional events allows
many more people to get the benefits of attending an open source geospatial
conference, and I think that is what OSGeo should be about. I think it's
better to have one name for these events, that helps all of them build on
the success of others. There is already a well established precedent for
using the name FOSS4G for local events, with the Japanese event. We can
still clearly indicate that a given event is the designated global FOSS4G or
a regional event.

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 7/10/2011 4:57 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>
>> Motion: The OSGeo Conference Committee on behalf of OSGeo
>> declares that it has no objection to the name FOSS4G-CEE being
>> used for an open source geospatial conference in central and eastern
>> europe organized by a group including Karel Charvat and Jachym
>> Cepicky.
>>
>
> -0 (based on Jeff's comment that local foss4g events will cause confusion
> in the market place). However, I do suggest that we encourage local
> conferences to select a common name and encourage re-use of similar
> guidelines. Maybe osgeo-conf-cee, osgeo-conf-japan, ... with url:
> http://2011.cee.conf.osgeo.org
> Note, I don't feel strongly about my comments and don't want it to block
> this motion if the majority of people support it.
>
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