[FOSS4G2016] Regarding 10th anniversary

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Hi Jeff,

that is what I had in mind.

Thanks, Till



Am 2015-11-16 11:30, schrieb 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/
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