MapServer Foundation - Open Letter

[Luis W. Sevilla]

As OpenGIS had explored this naming way, and changet this year, this 
more or less gives me to
Open Source Geospatial Fundation, or something like this.

Best regards
    Luis

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 Luis W. Sevilla
 Responsable de desarrollo gvSIG en la / gvSIG development Chief at
 Conselleria de Infraestructuras y Transporte
 Generalitat Valenciana
 Valencia - Spain
 http://www.gvsig.gva.es

Gary Lang wrote:

>This was a suggetion Steve had. I always liked it.
>
>--- Original Message ---
>From: "Bart van den Eijnden" <BEN at SYNCERA-ITSOLUTIONS.NL>
>Sent: Wed 11/30/2005 11:25 am
>To: "MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU" <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer Foundation - Open Letter
>
>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
>
>Bart van den Eijnden
>Syncera IT Solutions
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>>>>"Fawcett, David" <David.Fawcett at STATE.MN.US> 11/30/05 5:12 PM >>>
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>Gary, 
>
>Thank you for being open to not using the name MapServer to describe
>MapGuide.  For the foundation, may I suggest:
>
>Open Source Web Mapping Foundation?
>Web Mapping Foundation?
>
>
>Peoples Front for the Liberation of Web Mapping Products?
>
>David.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
>Behalf Of Gary Lang
>Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 10:01 AM
>To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer Foundation - Open Letter
>
>
>OK. So here's a sincere call for input.
>
>Here's the rub. Regardless of who made the mistake of suggesting it, I
>liked the name and agreed that we would go with it, so I'll take
>responsibility for MSE.
>
>On the back of that, we - what can now be seen as the TSC-x cabal + 1
>ADSK person - started drifting from foundation names that had more
>umbrella-like characteristics like osgis.org, mapcommunity, maptools,
>etc. and towards something that focuses on what we were putting out
>together. Based on the fact that both products were named MapServer in
>the root, we went with "MapServer Foundation".
>
>Now let's assume we change the name back to MapGuide. Why would I now
>want to cripple any hope of adoption by anybody by putting it in a
>foundation (that I helped name) that highlights one map serving product
>over another? 
>
>So far the community is showing more common sense than we were on this,
>so I'm interested to hear your opinions.
>
>Gary
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
>Behalf Of Bill Binko
>Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:44 AM
>To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer Foundation - Open Letter
>
>Hello, everyone
>
>I'm very sorry to be in this situation twice in one month (HylaFAX is 
>another project I'm involved in, and recently had a possible-fork/naming
>
>clash), but I thouht I would add one more perspective and perhaps a 
>request.
>
>When I first read the announcement about the foundation, I had two
>distinct reactions.  First, I sent a note to Frank, who I have found
>best represent the "soul" of the OpenGIS community.  I asked him why I
>so many people I respected (including danmo, and hobu, among others)
>were going along with what looked like a land-grab by a company that has
>historically been less-than-friendly to open source and open standards.
>(I haven't 
>gotten a response, but he's been busy and I feel its appropriate that I 
>not wait any longer to put in my two cents.)
>
>My second reaction was empowerment.  You see, I have been ...
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