I prefer to have the name FOSS4G. We can say it is the OSGeo conference.. On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Barry Rowlingson < b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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 > -- Regards, Rashad
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