[FOSS4G2016] Regarding 10th anniversary

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Anton, Till,

Your event is 100% the 10th anniversary of OSGeo's FOSS4G event.  No 
problem with your branding.  I'm sure the fellow founders, Venka, 
Markus, and myself, would not mind this branding, in fact would 
encourage it.  If you want to get technical, the FOSS4G founders (Venka, 
Markus, myself) actually celebrated the 10-year-by-calendar-date at 
FOSS4G-Asia in Bangkok, in 2014.

-jeff



On 2015-11-16 3:38 AM, 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/