[OSGeo-Conf] Re: Motion Regarding FOSS4G-CEE Name

[Jachym Cepicky]

Thank you all for making this decision. It was very important not only 
for us to know, where we can go. I would be happy with any result, just 
to know where the pitch lines are, this result is of course the better 
one at the moment.

I'm following the discussion in other threads carefully and so far I can 
only tell, the topics you are rising are very interesting and I can see 
so far positives and negatives as you do.

Speaking about franchising of FOSS4G trade mark, and getting some budget 
out of all regional "FOSS4G"-named conferences. The prise should be set, 
so that the event itself could still be made low cost, with reasonable 
budget.

Remember: FOSS4G-CEE should be during spring, so that the FOSS4G-Global 
would not be affected directly with this event. We are actually going 
directly against Czech traditional Geoinformatics, which will have to 
find it's new role (or not, depends...). I think, if what ever FOSS4G-* 
would take place during spring, the impact on the global event will be 
much lower.

I still see as an option, approach the world championship way: every 
second year global event, every other year bigger local events.

Jachym

On 11.10.2011 00:10, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Frank Warmerdam<warmerdam at pobox.com>  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.
>
> Folks,
>
> I think it has been two business days since I raised this motion.
> It has support from Paul, Peter, Dave, Mauricio, Cameron,
> Markus, Venka and myself with no one expressing a veto or
> a strong negative position.  As such, barring process concerns
> from our chair I declare the motion passed.
>
> Jachym / Karel - I hope you will treat this as "OSGeo is
> reasonable comfortable with your naming your conference
> FOSS4G CEE".
>
> Best regards,