[OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

["Toru Mori (森 亮)"]

We, Japan Chapter has already put  considerable money, effort and human resources on promoting FOSS4G since 2008.
I don’t want to rename this to OSGeo conference because we will have to marketing it almost from zero.
We have good awareness of FOSS4G already and don’t see advantages of renaming it to OSGeo at least here in Japan.

Mori

> 2015/10/11 22:43、Toshikazu SETO <tosseto at gmail.com> のメール：
> 
> I also agree to Venka and Maria (=Let us continue in this way!!!)
> In Japan case, FOSS4G has begun to spread in Japan now.
> 
> 2015-10-11 21:24 GMT+09:00 Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>:
> 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!
> MAria
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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
> 
> 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.
> 
> Venka
> 
> 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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