Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

+1 on the less is more and on renaming. Marketing is about establishing a brand (among other things). It is clear who owns the OSGeo brand. Who owns the FOSS4G brand belong to? what is the added value of supporting this brand? and potentially diluting or confusing the OSGeo brand? Many

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Notice] Email List Maintenance

> On Oct 7, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Alex M wrote: > > All of OSGeo email lists and aliases, will be migrated > to the new "osgeo6" Was kinda expecting the new machine to be called the FOSS4G6 machine… phew ! ___ Discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

+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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Seoul presentation files are available now.

Hello Venka, Some are already online now and others are not yet. Hope we could complete uploading by this weekend. Regards, 신상희 --- Shin, Sanghee Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company http://www.gaia3d.com > 2015. 10. 7., 오전 1:41, Venkatesh Raghavan 작성: >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] GeoAcademy in Directions Magazine

Hi Phil - may i ask in total (roughly) how many students have enrolled for your MOOC till now? Also the exponential multiplier effect of having both software and educational materials available is remarkable as other educators worldwide are using your resources. You should highlight this for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Seoul presentation files are available now.

Hi Sanghee, There is problem on this presentation (below), "Building OpenLayers Applications with QGIS Victor Olaya (Boundless), Benjamin Trigona-Harany" No pdf. Regards, Noli On 10/7/15, Sanghee Shin wrote: > Hello Venka, > > Some are already online now and others are

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Geoforall intro slides

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan < ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote: > Hi Anita, > > On 2015/10/07 6:38, Anita Graser wrote: > >> Hi, >> Do we have any standard intro slides for geo4all? Planning to spread the >> word here in Vienna. >> >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Ica-osgeo-labs] GeoAcademy in Directions Magazine

This is really excellent. These thousands of students are our "Train the Trainer". They now got the skills and the software. This is true empowerment. With all our Geo for All colleagues also now making use of your educational materials, we will be reaching and empowering hundreds of thousands

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Seoul presentation files are available now.

Hi, I've problems with S2-4: Data Utilization: "Satellite Snow Cover Products Evaluation and Validation Platform Developed Entirely With Floss Software Vasile Craciunescu (Romanian National Meteorological Administration)" Many thanks of Your efforts. Cheers, Kari On 10/07/2015 02:55 PM,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

> 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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

All, Fun thread to follow. throwing my thoughts out . . . I think the bigger issue is the word “change” in the discussions. It’s not about changing anything. It’s about classifying items better than before. Nothing is going away label-wise, or really being changed either. For example, you

[OSGeo-Discuss] [Notice] Email List Maintenance

All of OSGeo email lists and aliases, will be migrated to the new "osgeo6" machine on Thursday evening UTC (~ http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2015=10=8=18=0=0=224=179). Expected downtime required for syncing everything over plus testing will be 1 to 2 hours.