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

[Michael P. Gerlek]

Hearing no dissent, we'll assume the motion is carried I guess.

Daniel, over to you...

-mpg
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Moran [mailto:peter.moran at autodesk.com] 
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 3:27 PM
> To: dev at visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org; Michael P. Gerlek
> Cc: OSGeo Board
> Subject: RE: [VisCom] Re: [OSGeo-Board] RE: RE: [VisCom] 
> OSGeo tag line pre-selction
> 
> Good suggestion to append Michael.  I didn't mean to derail the voting
> process.
> 
> Peter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave McIlhagga (External) 
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 3:04 PM
> To: Michael P. Gerlek
> Cc: dev at visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org; OSGeo Board
> Subject: [VisCom] Re: [OSGeo-Board] RE: RE: [VisCom] OSGeo tag line
> pre-selction
> 
> +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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