@board: Maybe OSGeo should take action to protect it. It is not because OSGeo is an open and inclusive organisation, where membership is free as all the products, tools and libraries, that we shouldn't protect these valuable assets. It is better to protect and grant the use to other organisations, if they subscribe the values OSGeo is promoting.
my 2c Dirk On 13-10-15 14:18, Andy Anderson wrote: > Slightly different topic: brand names are usually protected by trademark; I > don’t see that FOSS4G is in the US trademark system: > > http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=4801:p4nq75.1.1 > > Should it be? Could it be, or is there already too much non-OSGeo use? For > that matter, I don’t see OSGeo there, either. > > If brands aren’t protected, they could be used / co-opted by other > organizations / corporations. > > — Andy > > On Oct 13, 2015, at 4:07 AM, Dirk Frigne <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 >> >> OSGeo is The organisation to support the collaborative development of >> open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use. [1] >> >> To promote its widespread use OSGeo started, amongst other things, to >> organise a yearly conference. Today, there is the global conference, and >> a lot of local conferences, almost every month, somewhere in the world. >> >> FOSS4G is the name of The OSGeo Conference. >> FOSS4G is an *important* brand of OSGeo. >> Local conferences have derived names like FOSS4G Europe, FOSS4G North >> America, FOSS4G.be, FOSSGIS ... >> >> My 2c >> >> [1] http://www.osgeo.org/about > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Yours sincerely, ir. Dirk Frigne CEO @geosparc Geosparc n.v. Brugsesteenweg 587 B-9030 Ghent Tel: +32 9 236 60 18 GSM: +32 495 508 799 http://www.geomajas.org http://www.geosparc.com @DFrigne be.linkedin.com/in/frigne _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
