Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Bob Basques
Hmmm, Very thoughtful reply. :c) I wasn't trying to incite a riot or anything, it just seemed a bit vague on the press release page about what was appropriate (or not). bobb Frank Warmerdam wrote: Bob Basques wrote: Whoa, So a press release can only be passed through for an existing OS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Bob Basques wrote: Whoa, So a press release can only be passed through for an existing OSGEO project? What good is that to the wider community? Or should there be another example added to the "Conception" section of the "press Release" page? That part on the bottom about costs for distrib

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Arnulf Christl
Bob Basques wrote: Whoa, So a press release can only be passed through for an existing OSGEO project? What good is that to the wider community? I think that OSGeo press release are an official thing so we need to pass it through somewhere before publishing. Do you think we should not? Wa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Bob Basques
Whoa, So a press release can only be passed through for an existing OSGEO project? What good is that to the wider community? Or should there be another example added to the "Conception" section of the "press Release" page? That part on the bottom about costs for distribution is an interest

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Jacolin Yves
Le Friday 18 January 2008 14:05:49 Arnulf Christl, vous avez écrit : > Yves Jacolin wrote: > > Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 19:07, Arnulf Christl a écrit : > >>> I also noticed (ok, so at this point I was going on the hunt for what > >>> else we might want to revisit) that we have no "media centre" lin

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-18 Thread Arnulf Christl
Yves Jacolin wrote: Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 19:07, Arnulf Christl a écrit : I also noticed (ok, so at this point I was going on the hunt for what else we might want to revisit) that we have no "media centre" links from the front page. Do we have a place where we put all our press releases? He

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-17 Thread Yves Jacolin
Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 19:07, Arnulf Christl a écrit : > > I also noticed (ok, so at this point I was going on the hunt for what > > else we might want to revisit) that we have no "media centre" links from > > the front page.  Do we have a place where we put all our press releases? > > Hehe. We h

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
Tim Bowden wrote: In putting together some words for the Aust-NZ chapters bid to host the 2009 FOSS4G conf, I went looking at what OSGeo stands for and how we could answer that mission in our conf hosting bid. I looked at http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html and got the distinct im

[OSGeo-Discuss] About OSGeo...

2008-01-07 Thread Tim Bowden
In putting together some words for the Aust-NZ chapters bid to host the 2009 FOSS4G conf, I went looking at what OSGeo stands for and how we could answer that mission in our conf hosting bid. I looked at http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html and got the distinct impression it was quit