Hi Barry, No, please no!! FOSS4G is easy to pronounce in several languages, includes the word Free and is the name of the conference. OsGeo is ¿"just"? the organization behind it.
I think it will make even more sense to change OSGeo to FOSGeo. Comments inline. On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Barry Rowlingson < b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > Okay, this is probably sticking a match under a pile of dry wood but > here goes... > > Can we rename The FOSS4G Conference to The OSGeo Conference? > > Cons: > > 1. FOSS4G is an established brand > > 2. FOSS4G sidesteps the "Free" vs "Open Source" argument by including > both. > > Counters to those: > > 1. Really? Perhaps amongst OSGeo people, but outside our sphere I > have to expand the acronym and then go on to mention OSGeo. > > 2. Let's have that argument somewhere else, okay? > What argument? Why? If you are thinking about the free/open argument, that's something we *should* make clear before the "openess" eats us. > Pros: > > 1. Puts the *Geo* visible, not tucked away as a G at the end. > > 2. Gets rid of the "4G", which may have been a cool thing 2 do ten > years ago, but not now :) > > 3. Removes any confusion with 4G telecoms networks. > For this we just have to wait until the 5G generation. > > 4. Clearly brands the conference as an OSGeo conference. Recent > discussion about the prominence and significance of OSGeo to FOSS4G > becomes moot. > If OSGeo becomes irrelevant to FOSS4G it will be because FOSS4G has evolved to something better. What would be the problem in that? Give space to things so they can evolve... > > 5. Is easy to explain. The OSGeo Conference is the open source > geospatial conference. See the OSGeo web site. Search for OSGeo. One > acronym to remember. > And then when we talk about OSGeo it may become confusing if we are referring to the conference or to the organization. > > [I toyed with the idea that the conference should be called "OSGeo > Live!" and renaming the OSGeo Live operating system disc as "OSGeoOS" > but that might be a bit too much :)] > > So, this is the discuss list, discuss. > > Barry > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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