MapServer Foundation - Name of . . .
Paul Scott
pscott at UWC.AC.ZA
Wed Nov 30 12:05:22 PST 2005
Errr,
Foundation for Open Geospatial Software (FOGS) ?
--Paul
>>> "Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]" <Tom.Kralidis at EC.GC.CA> 11/30/05 9:56 PM
>>>
How about:
"Geo Software Foundation" (GSF)
..Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List
> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Basques
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 November, 2005 14:46
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer Foundation -
> Name of . . .
>
>
> Another version . . .
>
> just:
>
> "Spatial Foundation"
>
> Pretty all inclusive as far as being an umbrella ORG. Kinda
> forks off
> into the product naming a bit easier too. The MapServer
> naming in the
> Foundation aspect seems to be a limiting aspect IMO.
>
> SF-MapServer
> SF-MapGuide
> Sf-Whatever . . .
>
>
> Still pondering . . .
>
> bobb
>
>
> 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
> >>
> >>
>
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