[OSGeo-Board] RE: RE: [VisCom] OSGeo tag line pre-selction

[Dave McIlhagga]

+1 on that.

Dave


Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> I tried to raise this on IRC, but no one was home. :-(
> 
> So, before anyone starts voting and things get confusing, I'd like to
> make a motion that we go ahead and do the pick-10 process as already
> started by Daniel, and then just append "The Open Source Geospatial
> Foundation" to the resulting list.
> 
> (I haven't reviewed the (long!) list of contenders yet, but I'm already
> leaning towards Peter's idea.)
> 
> -mpg
>  
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:tylermitchell at shaw.ca] 
>>Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 12:23 PM
>>To: dev at visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org
>>Cc: OSGeo Board
>>Subject: Re: RE: [VisCom] OSGeo tag line pre-selction
>>
>>
>>>Just so no one is surprised, VisCom made a decision last week to use
>>>"The Open Source Geospatial Foundation" as an interim 
>>
>>tagline in order
>>
>>>to meet production deadlines for banners and signage at Where 2.0. 
>>>
>>>And after looking at the list of entries and thinking about it, I 
>>>thinkit would make a simple but sensible permanent tagline.
>>
>>Interesting idea Peter.
>>
>>I was hoping that a tagline could help add some 'catchy-ness' 
>>and 'dynamic' to the name of the foundation.  I find that the 
>>name is so purely descriptive of the present state, that it 
>>does not lend much to forward vision or enthusiasm.  But I'm 
>>willing to accept that this could just be me :)
>>
>>I could live with your suggestion though, as I can see that 
>>having the name, the domain name and a different slogan can 
>>make things more confusing.  In essence, "OSGeo" would become 
>>the name and "The Open Source Geospatial Foundation" would be 
>>the tagline.  Makes sense to me.  Looking forward to seeing 
>>how it comes out.
>>
>>Tyler
>>
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