[OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

[Jachym Cepicky]

If You`re Riding a Horse and It Dies, Get Off.

FOSS4G is pretty much living horse IMHO

J

st 14. 10. 2015 v 4:55 odesílatel Ravi Kumar <manarajahmundry2015 at gmail.com>
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> +1 for FOSS4G may this inspire a multitude as it has always. FOSS4G is the
> brand of OSGeo Conference for sure.
> Ravi Kumar
>
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <
> maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:
>
>> 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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