[OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

[hayashi at apptec.co.jp]

+1 for Venka and Maria


(2015/10/11 21:24), Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
> I agree completely with Venka. Our strength up to now has to be inclusive,  considering  all excellent and community based free and open source projects. Let us continue in this way!!!
> Happy sunday!
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> Da: Discuss<discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>  per conto di Venkatesh Raghavan<raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>
> Inviato: domenica 11 ottobre 2015 14.09
> A: discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G
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> I think the OSGeo-Live project that you are leading can be safely
> (re)-named as
> FOSS4G-Live as it has a wonderful array of software projects that are not
> under the OSGeo umbrella as yet.
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> Venka
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> On 2015/10/08 5:08, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> +1 for "OSGeo conference".
>>
>> Adding a perspective from someone who marketed FOSS4G 2009.
>> Creating a marketing message is all about minimising words used,
>> because "less words get read more".
>>
>> When explaining FOSS4G to people outside our community you need to use:
>>
>> "international conference for Free and Open Source Software for
>> GeoSpatial (FOSS4G), presented by the Open Source Geospatial
>> Foundation (OSGeo)."
>>
>> vs
>>
>> "international Open Source Geospatial (OSGeo) conference"
>>
>> This is a good question to put to the charter members for a vote at
>> some point.
>>
>> On 8/10/2015 1:39 am, Marc Peterson wrote:
>>>> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-
>>>> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson
>>>> Yes, you and I and everyone *on this mailing list* knows
>>>> the difference and the relationship between OSGeo and FOSS4G. But
>>>> there are people out there in geospatial who don't know either.
>>> Emphatic +1
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