On 8/23/07, Frank Warmerdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P Kishor wrote: > > That, and > > the fact that I don't particularly care for this foss4g business... I > > am surprised no one has yet chimed in with floss4g > > Puneet, > > I assure you, all the possible disparaging remarks about the name FOSS4G > have already been made. I'm not fond of it myself, but it was selected after > a somewhat acrimonious debate by a somewhat close vote of the conference > committee. > > It seems the name was seen by some members as helping to emphasize the > "free" concept they feel is otherwise a bit lost in OSGeo and that the > FOSS4G name is somehow more international than calling the conference > OSGeo'07.
Democracies make wrong decisions. Want to make it international? Put the word "international" in the name. I can't imagine why FOSS4G is more international than OSGeo. Both are goofy acronyms, but the latter is necessary while the former is not. "OSGeo has an international conference every year; it is called FOSS4G. WTF!" Well, in democracies we live with wrong decisions until we feel too strongly about them. For now, I don't... I just think it is goofy and uninformative, and as is, requires registering for a new domain every year just for the conference. .. > Frankly, I was quite surprised at the selection of South Africa for the > 2008 conference. Oh well. Another year that I won't be able to attend the conference. > > Likewise, democratic decision making may hinder OSGeo's ability to > select more charter members and directors from the developing world. > Now, that would be plain sad and wrong. Again, for now, I am "ambivalent leaning to disagreeing" with the above, but OSGeo is still young. When it really becomes a problem, I hope to use all the legitimate processes available in a true democracy to try and overturn/change such a decision-making. Time to go to bed in the world's largest democracy. -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/ Nelson Inst. for Env. Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ 2007 Summer S&T Policy Fellow, The National Academies http://www.nas.edu/ ========================================================== collaborate, communicate, compete ========================================================== _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
