Renaming one of our most known projects, OSGeo-Live, is exactly what we
should not be doing, in order to promote the OSGeo foundation to the
masses.
Regarding that topic though, it is a good time to bring up discussions
of having the OSGeo-Live project actually enter into OSGeo Incubation,
so that it formalizes as an OSGeo Project (right now it is classed as an
"Outreach Project"). There was discussion of this in the past, but the
time is right to bring that onto the front burner.
This week the OSGeo Board will also likely formalize the "Geo For All"
group as the official name of the committee focused on education for the
OSGeo foundation. (there was a request for this from Suchith)
So my point, as you see, is that these items are very closely tied to
OSGeo, even if a lot of people don't realize that. yet. (lots of work
to do here of course, by the entire community/team)
Talk soon all,
-jeff
On 2015-10-11 9:24 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
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
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Inviato: domenica 11 ottobre 2015 14.09
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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: [email protected] [mailto:discuss-
[email protected]] 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
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