[OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

[Yoichi Kayama]

+1  I also agree with Toru and Jeff ..
We went a lot of publicity with the description of the FOSS4G.
And I want to use this name.


Yoichi Kayama

2015-10-12 0:13 GMT+09:00 Nobusuke Iwasaki <wata909 at gmail.com>:
> +1 for Toru and Jeff
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> Nobusuke Iwasaki
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> 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 :)
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>> Talk soon,
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>> -jeff
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>> On 2015-10-11 11:16 AM, "Toru Mori (森 亮)" wrote:
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>>> 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
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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.
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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)."
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>>>>> vs
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>>>>> "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:
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>>>>>>> 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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