[OSGeo-Discuss] Usage of 'FOSS4G' in webpages?

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

On 15 October 2010 13:09, Just van den Broecke <just at justobjects.nl> wrote:
> Yes, IMO we need a term for the specific subdomain of FOSS we are all
> involved in. I started using "FOSS4G" in presentations and with customers
> lately as I understood (after consulting, I think with Arnulf) that would
> cover it. The term "GFOSS" I see used sparingly (and there is also a "GFOSS
> Conference" http://antonakoglou.com/2010/05/16/gfoss-conference-2010).
>
> I really would like to see a single acronym (so my family & friends can
> Google on what I am working in :-)). FOSS4G/GFOSS/GeoFOSS/GOSS are
> candidates. Something with "GIS" (have seen OSGIS, FOSSGIS, OpenGIS) seems
> to be indicating "privative" (closed) software but is understood by a wider
> audience. (As is Open Source over FOSS but that was already a heated
> debate..).
>
> Suggestion: have a poll and settle on an acronym and spread it ?
>
> best,
>
> --Just
>

I've been using FOSS4G as "FOSS for geospatial" for years and never
had to explain "this has nothing to be with the great conference".

-- 
Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía
http://jorgesanz.net