FOSS4G is the accepted brand in India for OSGeo India events. +1 to it's usage world wide. Ravi Kumar
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > The foss4g brand has world wide recognition and is being used as great > outreach tool for several organizations (often based on the region). As an > organization we do not own the brand, and have obtained permission to use > it (as the polite thing to do). > > One thing that is interesting is watching what the regional events put on > by local chapters are called. You can kind of see the effect of the brand > by which regions choose to mark their event "foss4g". I have personally set > up a "foss4g-au" event for example which was great fun for all involved. > > Cheers, > Jody > > -- > Jody Garnett > > On 6 October 2015 at 08:12, 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? >> >> 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. >> >> 4. Clearly brands the conference as an OSGeo conference. Recent >> discussion about the prominence and significance of OSGeo to FOSS4G >> becomes moot. >> >> 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. >> >> [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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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