[FOSS4G2016] Regarding 10th anniversary

[Bart van den Eijnden]

I share Anton’s concerns. Portland marketed themselves as 10th FOSS4G (and these was extensive discussion on the mailing list how they came to this), I don’t think we can do this again. It only leads to confusion.

Best regards,
Bart

> On 16 Nov 2015, at 08:38, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
> 
> Anton,
> 
> it's in the eye of the beholder. But we are the only really, really true 10th anniversary.
> 
> First FOSS4G-named worldwide-conference was Lausanne 2006. Before there was an OSG2005 in Minneapolis.
> 
> So
> 
> 1. 2006 Lausanne,
> 2. 2007 Victoria,
> 3. 2008 Cape Town,
> 4. 2009 Sydney,
> 5. 2010 Barcelona,
> 6. 2011 Denver,
> -. 2012 - none (because Bejing failed)
> 7. 2013 Nottingham,
> 8. 2014 Portland
> 9. 2015 Seoul
> 
> ...
> 
> 10. 2016, right?
> 
> I really would like to put that as one aspect on our agenda.
> 
> So far, Till
> 
> 
> Am 2015-11-16 00:46, schrieb Anton Popov:
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> while thinking about the upcoming Early-Bird-Shirts I stumbled across [1] ;)
>> There was a suggestion to put the logos of the previous FOSS4Gs longside
>> a "10th anniversary" title -.
>> 
>> First of all I'm counting 11 logos there [1] (10 of which are labeled
>> "FOSS4G"). Second number 9 (PDX) seems to already have celebrated a 10th
>> birthday (it's in their logo!!).
>> 
>> So from a marketing point of view, I don't think it is wise to have a
>> second 10th anniversary.
>> 
>> I'm aware that the FOSS4G conference emerged from those other user
>> conferences (UMN/Grass/???) and counting the years is therefor difficult
>> ;). But still, since the 10th has been mentioned in several discussions
>> already, I thought to bring it up, before it's too late. I for one (if I
>> had visited PDX and wasn't into all that orga-stuff (i.e. a regular
>> attendee)) would have quite a deja vu effect on this.
>> 
>> Or has this been discussed somewhere already?
>> Can someone clarify for me how the anniversary should be regarded? =)
>> 
>> TIA
>> Anton
>> 
>> [1] http://www.foss4g.org/
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