You may like to at what Arnulf has been doing towards certification. Endorsing is a trickery game indeed.
For GeoServer we simply list organizations, noting what kind of work each is known for ( but not offering an endorsement). http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Commercial+Support On Sunday, May 4, 2014, Steven Feldman <shfeld...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Jody > > I would like to have a document or web link to point at as the start of a > conversation with an organisation. It can’t be mandatory but we might want > to consider community endorsement of organisations which adopt the charter > or 'social contract' > > I’ll start a wiki page with a few thoughts and open it up for others to > contribute their views > ______ > Steven > > > On 2 May 2014, at 12:14, Jody Garnett > <jody.garn...@gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jody.garn...@gmail.com');>> > wrote: > > I think you are leaning towards the "social contract" associated with > being part of a community. > > For organisations that do not wish to participate, that is fine. > Participation is one way of minimising the risks associated with the use of > open source software, as long as they are making that decision with a > decent understanding that is fine. > > The way I figure it they will get burned a few times before taking > interesting in participation :) But yeah if you are talking to managers > speak in terms of risk and change control, not community/participation - > know your audience. > > I think I had a rant about the social > contact<http://www.how2map.com/2013/09/opensource-and-social-contract.html> > last > year, it produced one more tester of GeoServer - making the process of > issuing release candidates suspect. > -- > Jody Garnett > > > -- Jody Garnett
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