[MSF-Discuss] Poll: Foundation Naming

[Bob Basques]

Still sound good to me.

Oh well.

:c)

bobb



Allan Doyle wrote:

>OGC was originally OGF.
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>Open GRASS Foundation -> Open GIS Consortium -> Open Geospatial Consortium
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>I don't think Open Geo Foundation is distinct enough from Open
>Geospatial Consortium
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>	Allan
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>On 2/1/06, Blammo <bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:
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>> All,
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>> Just to mix it up a bit.  (and it's probably been said already, I can't
>>believe I just came up with it)
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>> How about :
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>> "Open Geo Foundation"  -  OGF
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>> I didn't do any comprehensive searches, but a quick Google doesn't turn up
>>anything confusing for OGF
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>> It's short, not cute at all, says it all, and seems to address everything
>>I've read this morning.
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>> bobb
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>> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>> On 2/1/06, Tyler Mitchell <tylermitchell at shaw.ca> wrote:
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>> I also think that "open source" carries some weight but some of it is 'bad'
>>weight. There are very ambitious marketing campaigns that malign "open
>>source" and other campaigns that seem to aim to twist the term "open" until
>>it is meaningless. While open source is a central philosophy to the
>>foundation, it is something we identify with, but not something we need to
>>cling to for identifying us. Our projects will have plenty of merits apart
>>from our licensing philosophy.
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>> Tyler,
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>>In my opinion "Open Source" or "Free (as in freedom)" is the
>>fundamental philosophy of the foundation. As much as some
>>might try and malign open source, I don't think we can in way
>>shy away from it. It may not need to be in the name, but it needs
>>to be in the first paragraph on the web site.
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>>Furthermore, if it came down to an acronym type name, I
>>would *much* prefer OSGF (Open Source Geospatial Foundation)
>>to OGSF (Open Geospatial Software Foundation) as the later
>>loses the assurance that the software is truely free. Open is
>>easily abused, but "Open Source" can be given a specific meaning
>>by reference to the OSD (Open Source Definition).
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>>To further stress this point, I think it ought to be written into the
>>"constitution" that the foundation itself only adopts projects that
>>have OSI approved licenses, and that the foundation board
>>shall not have the power to alter foundation owned code to a non
>>OSI license.
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>>I think it is rare that I get sticky about FOSS political correctness
>>but as we set down the bedrock of our foundation I think it is
>>important to have this principle clear.
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>>Best regards,
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>>I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
>>light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
>>and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent
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