<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ned, <DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 20-Jun-06, at 6:35 PM, Ned Horning wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">One thing I noticed reading through the OSGeo promotional material and the web site is that Autodesk isn’t mentioned. Maybe I misunderstand the significance of their role in getting OSGeo rolling but isn’t it significant enough to warrant mention somewhere? Is there a reason not to mention their role in a presentation about OSGeo?</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV>I'm sure that you do not misunderstand their significance in getting this all started. When looking at the presentations and brochures, for example, we intentionally removed reference to Autodesk - mostly at their request. They donated booth space, brochure printing, template development, etc. with the aim to have the focus on OSGeo. So there was a deliberate attempt to not sell Autodesk on the back of the foundation. That's how I saw it anyway.. Gary Lang could add some context. Gary - are we underselling Autodesk's contributions? We left it up to Gary to talk at Where 2.0 about Autodesk's involvement. I think it worked out alright, but perhaps we could do more.</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">On a related note, has anyone written up a “history” of OSGeo starting with the formation of the MapServer Foundation? </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV>Nothing that I know of - it is something I would like to tackle at some point though.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Tyler</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>