On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Marco Negretti <marco.negre...@polimi.it> wrote:
> I think that rename the conference is the worst thing that we can do: > ten years of history trashed! I now regret not putting "please refrain from hyperbole" in my original posting. It's clearly not "the worst thing we could do". It would not "trash ten years of history". If the powers that be decided to change the name, I'd suggest that "formerly FOSS4G" was prominent on the web site for a couple of years for the new conferences. Continuity with the past is important and not impossible after a name change. Previous conferences would still appear as FOSS4G. No trashing of history. As I think the thread on OSGeo's relevance has made clear [1], change seems to be happening - although that's a truism - but if we want to keep up with the change going on around us then the one thing we mustn't fear is change, no more than I fear the change in the colour of the leaves I see outside my window. New name, new launch, new people, new potential. Barry [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-September/014912.html (note thread goes off-topic into chatter about github/trac/svn pretty quickly... _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
