Hi Arnulf et al.<br><br>Domain:<br>From my perspective FOSS4G2008 needs to stay as a brand for next year but maybe it's a good time to introduce some new alternatives so that people get familiar with them for future events and so that there are more chances they'll find us (the more urls they try). That's OSGeo's decision. Yes
<a href="http://www.foss4g2008.org">www.foss4g2008.org</a> is already registered and pointing to a server in SA that we were hoping to have ready to announce last week. Frank set that up. So at least let's keep that domain.
<br><br>Website:<br>Regarding the site itself I agree it makes sense to just keep it on OSGeo infrastructure to simplify matters, reduce costs, save time. And likely be faster access to the North. So, have you guys reached any decision to go for the conference platform that Tyler was investigating? It looks good on the surface. We're prepared to dive in and be the guinea pigs with it but must decide soon.
<br><br>Next option with the site is to just fork Paul's site from his svn, which he's quite happy for us to do. I'm not sure where it's hosted but being Drupal should fit in with OSGeo's platform? Then all we do is change skins and content and we're done! To me these are the best two options. I'd like your input or an OSGeo decision about which way to go. We'd obviously need admin rights for at least two SA locals and would have the skill to work on either platform.
<br><br>Other options, which are low on my list, are doing our own site from scratch and hosting it here, or building it on the GISSA site. <br><br>Logo:<br>We are working on this, will find out tomorrow at LOC meeting how things are going.
<br><br>Mailing list: <br>I'm happy to move from Google. Please set up an OSGeo list and give me admin rights and some tips on migrating. <br><br>Document management:<br>We need a platform for sharing and collaborating on budgets, schedules, etc. rather than sending e-mail attachments around. What does the OSGeo site offer in this regard?
<br><br>This would all be good input into our LOC meeting tomorrow.<br><br>cheers<br><br>Gavin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 03/10/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Arnulf Christl</b> <<a href="mailto:arnulf.christl@wheregroup.com">
arnulf.christl@wheregroup.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Gavin,<br>it would be really really cool, if you could make up a Logo for FOSS4G 08
<br>real quick and maybe even provide a link to a site.<br><br>There are quite a few pages out there pointing to FOSS4G 07 and people<br>will start to take them down soon. If they get something nice to replace<br>it with they might just keep it where it is and exchange the logo. This
<br>would save us a lot of work contacting people etc. I am pretty sure that<br>Paul or someone from the conference committee can give you a list of<br>people who have been contacted (it migfht even be in the Wiki but even I
<br>sometimes lose track nowadays... :-)<br><br>There are several possible addresses for FOSS4G that I think have already<br>been registered. My favorite would be<br><a href="http://www.foss4g.org">http://www.foss4g.org</a>
<br>and we can get it to make something like<br><a href="http://www.foss4g.org/2008">http://www.foss4g.org/2008</a> or<br><a href="http://2008.foss4g.org">http://2008.foss4g.org</a> or whatever you think.<br><br>BUT. Yes, it needs to be discussed (o man, how I sometimes hate to start
<br>things like these... :-) because there is a well reasoned argument for<br>changing the whole name of the conference to the "OSGeo Conference" or<br>something like that. We had voted on this some time back and came up with
<br>several arguments to keep it FOSS4G, therefore "yours" will be "FOSS4G<br>2008" but nobody knows what to do with the next yet (might also be that I<br>am nobody in this case, you never know). But we should discuss this
<br>somewhere and time else (anybody feel like taking this to Discuss, I<br>rather wont).<br><br>If anybody remembers who registered <a href="http://www.foss4g2008.org/">http://www.foss4g2008.org/</a> please<br>speak up, I think that would be a good placeholder that could just point
<br>to whatever it becomes in the end.<br><br>Best regards, Arnulf<br><br>--<br>Arnulf Christl<br><a href="http://www.wheregroup.com">http://www.wheregroup.com</a><br><br>PS:<br>Just read up on what has already been discussed on conf. Good. Venka, you
<br>sound like you want to do '09... :-)<br><br>Gavin,<br>I am very sure that I would like the mailing list to rather stay under the<br>hood of OSGeo instead of at Google. Do you think there might still be a<br>chance to change that, will anybody be offended or will it disrupt
<br>communication? Its just that I am the unofficial corporate paranoid of<br>OSGeo and try to keep a brand. One of our (OSGeo's) assets is that we can<br>offer all kinds of FOSS GIS stuff under one roof (building a brand and so
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