poll results?

Sears, Jeremy Jeremy.Sears at CCRS.NRCAN.GC.CA
Thu Dec 1 08:30:08 PST 2005


Hi all,
Can one view the current status of the namming poll somewhere on
ms.gis.umn.edu? If so where?
Thanks
Jeremy

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Sent: December 1, 2005 11:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer Foundation - Open Letter


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On Dec 1, 2005, at 11:07, Don Isgitt wrote:

> Bob Basques wrote:
>> Hmmm, how about . . .
>> "Open Spatial Foundation"
>> Kinda has a ring to it, short acronym OSF, seems easy to remember,  
>> in acronym form anyway.
>> Still thinking about it though . . .
>> bobb
>> Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>>> Why limit it to webmapping only? This would exclude things like  
>>> PostGIS, =
>>> uDIG etc. from joining.
>>>
>>> My suggestion would be Open Source GIS Foundation or Open Source  
>>> GIS =
>>> Software Foundation.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Bart
>>>
>
>
> "opengis.org" as Gary mentioned sounds very good to me. Web site  
> name and foundation name the same. No extra acronym required.
>
> Don
>

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