Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

2015-10-13 Thread Ravi Kumar
+1 for FOSS4G may this inspire a multitude as it has always. FOSS4G is the brand of OSGeo Conference for sure. Ravi Kumar On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli < maria.brove...@polimi.it> wrote: > I agree completely with Venka. Our strength up to now has to be > inclusive,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

2015-10-13 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Martes 13. octubre 2015 09.48.11 Hans Gregers Petersen escribió: > Let us then say that FTSJ only has a byline in the: > "'The Fabulous Geo Conference' *cough cough* brought to you by FTSJ". So what would be the problem with something like «FOSS4G: The OSGeo conference»? Wouldn't that

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

2015-10-13 Thread Dirk Frigne
+1 OSGeo is The organisation to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use. [1] To promote its widespread use OSGeo started, amongst other things, to organise a yearly conference. Today, there is the global conference, and a lot of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Renaming FOSS4G

2015-10-13 Thread María Arias de Reyna
Hi, Another reason *not* to change the name: if it is called the OSGeo conference, non-OSGeo software or companies will feel rejected and don't want to come. I find it very refresh to be able to discuss non-OSGeo but FOSS4G things in this kind of conferences. Regards, María.

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Branding FOSS4G

2015-10-13 Thread Andy Anderson
Slightly different topic: brand names are usually protected by trademark; I don’t see that FOSS4G is in the US trademark system: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss=4801:p4nq75.1.1 Should it be? Could it be, or is there already too much non-OSGeo use? For that matter, I

[OSGeo-Discuss] Last call for FedGeoDay 2015

2015-10-13 Thread Andrea Ross
Dear Everyone, (x-posted to LocationTech & OSGeo discussion lists, please fwd to any who might be interested) For those that are interested, this Thursday is FedGeoDay 2015 . FedGeoDay 2015 features a really great line-up of speakers from Government and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Video posted already for FOSS4G Tokyo

2015-10-13 Thread Anita Graser
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Ko Nagase wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > Thanks for information. > > 2015-10-12 21:18 GMT+09:00 Jeff McKenna : > > Watch the talks from earlier today at FOSS4G Tokyo, including Prof Rajan > > from OSGeo-India's

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Video posted already for FOSS4G Tokyo

2015-10-13 Thread Ko Nagase
Hi Anita, Thanks for notification. Both services (original Ustream and YouTube) link seem not be available temporarily to adjust some other presenters' videos privacy settings. Please wait for a while until those videos have been restored. Regards, Ko 2015-10-14 3:05 GMT+09:00 Anita Graser