[MSF-Discuss] Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Autodesk product naming poll

[Paul Spencer]

Has anyone else noticed that a common sentiment that MapServer is not  
a particularly great name?  It seems the core developers, in  
particular, are not that invested in the name.  Seems weird that the  
community is working so hard to defend something that the 'owners'  
are not even that sure they want to keep.  This is just an  
observation, not a new argument :)

Cheers

Paul

On 23-Dec-05, at 7:52 PM, sgillies at frii.com wrote:

> Gary,
>
> I simply think that trying to rename the MapServer project is  
> detrimental
> to the project, and I've really appreciated that you're more  
> sensitive to
> this than most of the open letter signers. I'm not in love with the  
> name
> MapServer by any means, but it would best be left unchanged both  
> for the
> health of the project and to provide some continuity from the existing
> MapServer community. Frankly, I don't care what the foundation is  
> named so
> long as it doesn't trample on any other open source project or  
> foundation.
>
> cheers,
> Sean
>
>> Sean,
>>
>> Would moving MapServer from UMinn to the, say, "Open Source  
>> Geospatial
>> Foundation" be asking for trouble compared to putting it into the
>> "MapServer Foundation"? If not, why not?
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	discuss-bounces at lists.mapserverfoundation.org on behalf of
>> sgillies at frii.com
>> Sent:	Thu 12/22/2005 6:05 PM
>> To:	Attila Csipa
>> Cc:	mapserver-users at lists.umn.edu;  
>> discuss at lists.mapserverfoundation.org
>> Subject:	Re: [MSF-Discuss] Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Autodesk product
>> naming poll
>>
>> Attila,
>>
>> I have customers who have been equally confused by this project name
>> churning. A foundation could be a good thing, but trying to rebrand
>> MapServer at the same time is asking for trouble.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sean
>>
>>
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