If FOSS4G is meant to be an event exclusively organized by OSGeo then
a rebrand to to OSGeo conference makes perfect sense.
If -just as with FOSS4G-NA 2015- the conference is going to be a
co-productin with one more other organisations (such as LocationTech
then I'd keep the FOSS4G name.
To me this discussion is closely related to the discusison about the
relationship/overlap between OSGeo and LocationTech.
How about putting this on the new Board's strategic agenda for the
forthcoming year?
Regards,
GJ
Randal Hale <rjh...@northrivergeographic.com> schreef:
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. I will bring some fuel
- diesel in honor of the largest car manufacturing plant near me
(Volkswagen)
It would strengthen the brand of OSGEO with a conference named the
same. There seems to be a fairly large disconnect right now with the
FOSS4GNA conference and OSGEO. That needs to be much tighter.
Although I'm a bit of a stickler with Free and Open Source - I like
the idea of going OS*Geo - *because that's what I do (at least in my
case) - I use GIS and I do it with free and open source tools.
+11 on having to explain foss4g and then dragging osgeo into it.
Lets go one step further and talk to the Geo4all folks into saying osgeo4all.
Randy
On 10/06/2015 11:12 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
Okay, this is probably sticking a match under a pile of dry wood but
here goes...
Can we rename The FOSS4G Conference to The OSGeo Conference?
Cons:
1. FOSS4G is an established brand
2. FOSS4G sidesteps the "Free" vs "Open Source" argument by including both.
Counters to those:
1. Really? Perhaps amongst OSGeo people, but outside our sphere I
have to expand the acronym and then go on to mention OSGeo.
2. Let's have that argument somewhere else, okay?
Pros:
1. Puts the *Geo* visible, not tucked away as a G at the end.
2. Gets rid of the "4G", which may have been a cool thing 2 do ten
years ago, but not now :)
3. Removes any confusion with 4G telecoms networks.
4. Clearly brands the conference as an OSGeo conference. Recent
discussion about the prominence and significance of OSGeo to FOSS4G
becomes moot.
5. Is easy to explain. The OSGeo Conference is the open source
geospatial conference. See the OSGeo web site. Search for OSGeo. One
acronym to remember.
[I toyed with the idea that the conference should be called "OSGeo
Live!" and renaming the OSGeo Live operating system disc as "OSGeoOS"
but that might be a bit too much :)]
So, this is the discuss list, discuss.
Barry
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