[OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks Mori-san, I fully agree with you, there is no need to rename 
anything.  Instead, there is lots to do to continue promoting OSGeo and 
FOSS4G :)

Talk soon,

-jeff



On 2015-10-11 11:16 AM, "Toru Mori (森 亮)" wrote:
> 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.
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> Mori
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>> 2015/10/11 22:43、Toshikazu SETO <tosseto at gmail.com> のメール：
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>> I also agree to Venka and Maria (=Let us continue in this way!!!)
>> In Japan case, FOSS4G has begun to spread in Japan now.
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>> 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
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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.
>>
>> 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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