[Marketing] Re: [Board] Renaming the LiveGIS Disc as OSGeo-Live

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

I agree, +1 Tyler

>From the Marketing committee angle I don't see any issue as long as the
branding is done well :).  From the board angle, I'm sure it's not an
issue as long as it's all being run openly by an OSGeo committee (which
it is).

Good work,
Tyler

Cameron Shorter wrote:
> OSGeo Marketing and OSGeo Board,
> 
> Us LiveDVD packagers are looking to rename our packaging project and the
> Disc that we distribute as "OSGeo-Live", accessable at
> http://live.osgeo.org
> 
> Before we lay claim to this name, I'd like to give the OSGeo Marketing
> Committee and OSGeo Board the opportunity to raise any concerns with our
> use of the "OSGeo" name, and if objections are strong enough, we can
> pick a different name.
> 
> So please speak up now if you have a concern, or objection.
> Otherwise vote positively to: "Should the LiveDVD be renamed as
> "OSGeo-Live"?
> 
> +1 Cameron, LiveDVD group, Marketing committee member.
> 
> As background:
> * The Live DVD packages up many of the OSGeo projects on a liveDVD, as
> well as other Open Source GeoSpatial applications.
> 
> * We will likely encourage projects to at least join OSGeo Labs, but
> this will likely not be enforced in the short term. So we will have
> packages on the disc which are not associated with OSGeo.
> 
> * Our focus to date has been on providing a DVD for conferences (most
> notably FOSS4G)
> 
> * In future there will likely be other focuses for the DVD, or
> derivitives of it, which focus on training material, documentation,
> specific project(s) distributions.
>