Hi Simon & others commenting on a suitable acronym,
From the initial responses and also from the Japanese chapter mails
inbetween, "FOSS4G" seemed to be slightly favoured and already in use,
so why not use that term ? best,
Just
On 17-10-10 05:35, Simon Cropper wrote:
Hi Just& others comme
Hi Just & others commenting on a suitable acronym,
On Friday 15 October 2010 10:09:24 pm Just van den Broecke wrote:
> Yes, IMO we need a term for the specific subdomain of FOSS we are all
> involved in. I started using "FOSS4G" in presentations and with
> customers lately as I understood (after c
On 10-10-14 8:19 PM, Simon Cropper wrote:
Hi,
Can someone please explain if the FOSS4G acronym can be used to identify 'free
and open source geographical information systems/tools used to view, edit,
manipulate and map geospatial data' and whether I can use it to help
define/name some educationa
On 15/10/10 13:20, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
My 2 cents...
I also always intended FOSS4G as the set of FOSS for gespatial
applications.
So in my opinion FOSS4G == GFOSS == GeoFOSS, actually the conference
name I thought came from that, a conference where people talk of sofware
open source and
My 2 cents...
I also always intended FOSS4G as the set of FOSS for gespatial applications.
So in my opinion FOSS4G == GFOSS == GeoFOSS, actually the conference
name I thought came from that, a conference where people talk of sofware
open source and free for the gesopatial world!
Maxi
On 10/
On 15 October 2010 13:09, Just van den Broecke wrote:
> Yes, IMO we need a term for the specific subdomain of FOSS we are all
> involved in. I started using "FOSS4G" in presentations and with customers
> lately as I understood (after consulting, I think with Arnulf) that would
> cover it. The term
I have been always using foss4g, but also gfoss could be the way to go.
For sure, the best would be using a single well recognized word.
A poll for chosing it, as suggested already, would be very beneficial
at this point
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Yes, I agree with Chris.
And "OSGeo Software" is also a loaded, but ambiguous term - probably
meaning
Sent: 15 October 2010 11:10
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Usage of 'FOSS4G' in webpages?
Yes, I agree with Chris.
And "OSGeo Software" is also a loaded, but ambiguous term - probably
meaning Software which has been incubated in OSGeo, but sometimes al
Yes, I agree with Chris.
And "OSGeo Software" is also a loaded, but ambiguous term - probably
meaning Software which has been incubated in OSGeo, but sometimes also
meaning any Open Source GeoSpatial Software.
I'm afraid the best term I've been able to use is "GeoSpatial Open
Source Software
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:19:33AM +1100, Simon Cropper wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can someone please explain if the FOSS4G acronym can be used to identify
> 'free
> and open source geographical information systems/tools used to view, edit,
> manipulate and map geospatial data' and whether I can use it t
Hi,
Can someone please explain if the FOSS4G acronym can be used to identify 'free
and open source geographical information systems/tools used to view, edit,
manipulate and map geospatial data' and whether I can use it to help
define/name some educational material I am creating?
Something alon
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