[OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

[Nobusuke Iwasaki]

+1 for Toru and Jeff

Nobusuke Iwasaki




2015-10-11 23:27 GMT+09:00 Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>:
> 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
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> 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.
>>
>> 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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