[OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Re: Renaming FOSS4G

[Andy Anderson]

AGM? Annual general meeting ?

The problem with acronyms…

— Andy

On Oct 11, 2015, at 9:03 AM, Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch<mailto:massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>> wrote:

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Da: "Massimiliano Cannata" <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch<mailto:massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>>
Data: 11/Ott/2015 14:54
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G
A: "Venkatesh Raghavan" <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp<mailto:raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>>
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Indeed i think that Venka is right.
OSGeo-live may let people think that all the software inside is part of the OSGeo projects. FOSS4G-live is more correct and clear in this sense.

Regarding the name of the conference i have already expressed my view (unfortunately not considered): the important is to define rules that guarantees equity, openess, transparence and that clerly says that foss4g is the OSGeo AGM.

Maxi

Il 11/Ott/2015 14:09, "Venkatesh Raghavan" <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp<mailto:raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>> ha scritto:
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> [mailto:discuss-<mailto:discuss->
bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto: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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