I agree completely with Venka. Our strength up to now has to be inclusive, considering all excellent and community based free and open source projects. Let us continue in this way!!! Happy sunday! MAria
---------------------------------------------------- Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor Politecnico di Milano ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS AB; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Sol Katz Award 2015 Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY) Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321 e-mail1: maria.brove...@polimi.it e-mail2: prorettr...@como.polimi.it ________________________________________ Da: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Venkatesh Raghavan <ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> Inviato: domenica 11 ottobre 2015 14.09 A: discuss@lists.osgeo.org Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G I think the OSGeo-Live project that you are leading can be safely (re)-named as FOSS4G-Live as it has a wonderful array of software projects that are not under the OSGeo umbrella as yet. Venka On 2015/10/08 5:08, Cameron Shorter wrote: > +1 for "OSGeo conference". > > Adding a perspective from someone who marketed FOSS4G 2009. > Creating a marketing message is all about minimising words used, > because "less words get read more". > > When explaining FOSS4G to people outside our community you need to use: > > "international conference for Free and Open Source Software for > GeoSpatial (FOSS4G), presented by the Open Source Geospatial > Foundation (OSGeo)." > > vs > > "international Open Source Geospatial (OSGeo) conference" > > This is a good question to put to the charter members for a vote at > some point. > > On 8/10/2015 1:39 am, Marc Peterson wrote: >>> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss- >>> boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson >>> Yes, you and I and everyone *on this mailing list* knows >>> the difference and the relationship between OSGeo and FOSS4G. But >>> there are people out there in geospatial who don't know either. >> Emphatic +1 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
