Steven, I'm very supportive of your thoughts and think it could be adopted as an official OSGeo statement. Well done.
If I can make a suggestion, perhaps the Donate picture should show banknotes rather than coins ;-) Even > A couple of months back I asked whether their was any contribution guidance > that we offered to organisations using OSGeo software. Apart from Jody’s > reply there wasn’t any response. I think we are missing an opportunity to > encourage and help user organisations to contribute time and/or funding to > OSGeo and it’s projects, so I have written this blog post > http://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch/ > which sets out some thoughts on "Good practice for organisations using > OSGeo software”. Hopefully it will prompt some discussion. I have posted > on my blog as I didn’t feel that I should post something as speculative as > this on the wiki without community endorsement, whenever people want we > can move a version to the wiki. Feel free to comment on this mail thread > or on the blog. ____________ > Steven Feldman > > On 5 May 2014, at 04:57, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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> 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 last year, it produced one > >> more tester of GeoServer - making the process of issuing release > >> candidates suspect. -- Geospatial professional services http://even.rouault.free.fr/services.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss