I think the only concern with that is if people don't know what OSGeo is they won't have a clue about what's on the Disc. Since one part of the project is PR, the more random people stumbling onto it via Google etc the better.
Alex Bob Basques wrote: > How about just plain old "OSGEO-Live" as a title? > > bobb > > > > >>>> Alex Mandel <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd like to discuss the name briefly. I realize Cameron is on vacation > and probably won't respond for a week, but I don't think that should > hold back at least a discussion. Hopefully we can make a decision by the > Feature Freeze date. > > Based on previous conversations I'd like to suggest that we move to > calling the disc/project: > OSGeo-LiveGIS or OSGeo-LiveGeospatial > I think this is fairly important as we need to properly attribute that > OSGeo/FOSS4G is a main driver of this effort and provides infrastructure > for the production(We've been discussing a whole other plan for how to > properly give credit to sponsors and contributors) I realize it's hard > to come up with a name that adequately describes that we have DVD,VM and > USB based distribution methods, but to me those are distribution methods > and we're not focusing on any one so it seems good to just leave that out. > > An acceptable alternative would be to come up with a new brand, to > permanently fly under, but this might be very hard to come to agreement > on considering the wide variety of contributors. If we decided to build > a new brand name I think we would also want to move towards becoming a > real project with a PSC, dedicated website, etc. > > Version Naming: > Each version(or maybe each year) getting it's own mascot/personalized > name as given by the conference organizers of Foss4G. So Last year's was > Arramagong, and that could carry until the next Foss4G, or the mid > year(between conferences) could just not have one? > > Version Numbering, I see several options > By year with counter 2010.1 or 1.2010 > By year and month 2010.3 > By counter 3.0 > I actually like the 1st 2 because it's more clear when the disc was made > and that gives you some idea of what version of software you'll find on > them and how recent the build was, a straight counter while letting you > know how many have been built is going to increment quite quickly and to > mean doesn't really convey much to the end user, it means much more to > the developers. > > I welcome your thoughts, > Alex > _______________________________________________ > Live-demo mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo > > _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo
