My 2 cents...
I also always intended FOSS4G as the set of FOSS for gespatial applications.
So in my opinion FOSS4G == GFOSS == GeoFOSS, actually the conference
name I thought came from that, a conference where people talk of sofware
open source and free for the gesopatial world!
Maxi
On 10/15/2010 01:36 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:
On 15 October 2010 13:09, Just van den Broecke<j...@justobjects.nl> wrote:
Yes, IMO we need a term for the specific subdomain of FOSS we are all
involved in. I started using "FOSS4G" in presentations and with customers
lately as I understood (after consulting, I think with Arnulf) that would
cover it. The term "GFOSS" I see used sparingly (and there is also a "GFOSS
Conference" http://antonakoglou.com/2010/05/16/gfoss-conference-2010).
I really would like to see a single acronym (so my family& friends can
Google on what I am working in :-)). FOSS4G/GFOSS/GeoFOSS/GOSS are
candidates. Something with "GIS" (have seen OSGIS, FOSSGIS, OpenGIS) seems
to be indicating "privative" (closed) software but is understood by a wider
audience. (As is Open Source over FOSS but that was already a heated
debate..).
Suggestion: have a poll and settle on an acronym and spread it ?
best,
--Just
I've been using FOSS4G as "FOSS for geospatial" for years and never
had to explain "this has nothing to be with the great conference".
--
Dr. Eng. Massimiliano Cannata
Responsabile Area Geomatica
Istituto Scienze della Terra
Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana
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