<div dir="ltr">+1 for FOSS4G may this inspire a multitude as it has always. FOSS4G is the brand of OSGeo Conference for sure.<div>Ravi Kumar</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" target="_blank">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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!!!<br>
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Da: Discuss <<a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>> per conto di Venkatesh Raghavan <<a href="mailto:raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp">raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp</a>><br>
Inviato: domenica 11 ottobre 2015 14.09<br>
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Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G<br>
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I think the OSGeo-Live project that you are leading can be safely<br>
(re)-named as<br>
FOSS4G-Live as it has a wonderful array of software projects that are not<br>
under the OSGeo umbrella as yet.<br>
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Venka<br>
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On 2015/10/08 5:08, Cameron Shorter wrote:<br>
> +1 for "OSGeo conference".<br>
><br>
> Adding a perspective from someone who marketed FOSS4G 2009.<br>
> Creating a marketing message is all about minimising words used,<br>
> because "less words get read more".<br>
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> When explaining FOSS4G to people outside our community you need to use:<br>
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> "international conference for Free and Open Source Software for<br>
> GeoSpatial (FOSS4G), presented by the Open Source Geospatial<br>
> Foundation (OSGeo)."<br>
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> vs<br>
><br>
> "international Open Source Geospatial (OSGeo) conference"<br>
><br>
> This is a good question to put to the charter members for a vote at<br>
> some point.<br>
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> On 8/10/2015 1:39 am, Marc Peterson wrote:<br>
>>> From: <a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:discuss-">discuss-</a><br>
>>> <a href="mailto:bounces@lists.osgeo.org">bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson<br>
>>> Yes, you and I and everyone *on this mailing list* knows<br>
>>> the difference and the relationship between OSGeo and FOSS4G. But<br>
>>> there are people out there in geospatial who don't know either.<br>
>> Emphatic +1<br>
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