[OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

[Ravi Kumar]

FOSS4G is the accepted brand in India for OSGeo India events. +1 to it's
usage world wide.
Ravi Kumar

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The foss4g brand has world wide recognition and is being used as great
> outreach tool for several organizations (often based on the region). As an
> organization we do not own the brand, and have obtained permission to use
> it (as the polite thing to do).
>
> One thing that is interesting is watching what the regional events put on
> by local chapters are called. You can kind of see the effect of the brand
> by which regions choose to mark their event "foss4g". I have personally set
> up a "foss4g-au" event for example which was great fun for all involved.
>
> Cheers,
> Jody
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 6 October 2015 at 08:12, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk
> > wrote:
>
>> Okay, this is probably sticking a match under a pile of dry wood but
>> here goes...
>>
>> Can we rename The FOSS4G Conference to The OSGeo Conference?
>>
>> Cons:
>>
>>  1. FOSS4G is an established brand
>>
>>  2. FOSS4G sidesteps the "Free" vs "Open Source" argument by including
>> both.
>>
>> Counters to those:
>>
>>  1. Really? Perhaps amongst OSGeo people, but outside our sphere I
>> have to expand the acronym and then go on to mention OSGeo.
>>
>>  2. Let's have that argument somewhere else, okay?
>>
>> Pros:
>>
>>  1. Puts the *Geo* visible, not tucked away as a G at the end.
>>
>>  2. Gets rid of the "4G", which may have been a cool thing 2 do ten
>> years ago, but not now :)
>>
>>  3. Removes any confusion with 4G telecoms networks.
>>
>>  4. Clearly brands the conference as an OSGeo conference. Recent
>> discussion about the prominence and significance of OSGeo to FOSS4G
>> becomes moot.
>>
>>  5. Is easy to explain. The OSGeo Conference is the open source
>> geospatial conference. See the OSGeo web site. Search for OSGeo. One
>> acronym to remember.
>>
>> [I toyed with the idea that the conference should be called "OSGeo
>> Live!" and renaming the OSGeo Live operating system disc as "OSGeoOS"
>> but that might be a bit too much :)]
>>
>> So, this is the discuss list, discuss.
>>
>> Barry
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