Hi Jachym,
Yes I agree, it is a slippery slope that once we/OSGeo decide that size
is an important part of our organization (as you know, many other
organizations separate their membership by size), it opens up so many
other challenges. For that reason, I spoke up here to suggest that we
avoid all that, by suggesting 4 options to cover that.
Indeed my proposal does include all organizations, purposely. OSGeo is
built on that, and has done an amazing job in creating a thriving
community.
Thanks for listening Jachym,
-jeff
On 2017-08-21 6:17 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
Hi Jeff (all)
currently, the page is listing "service providers" - it's project
oriented (as providing services to projects)
your proposal is shifting it little bit to "all organisations", not even
service providing - but what is their releationship to the (osgeo)
projects? - still, it would be fine to me
I would be +1 for it, if it's does not hit to some other principle,
already hardcoded in the page (e.g.
http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/initiatives/geo-for-all/ is partly
coreving the Academic/Research topic - just an example of potencial
conflict, which we could oversee)
I do not know, just noting, I have no strong opinion - I want to be
inclusive, all for adding another categories, but the rules and
principals should be clear. Currently, how I understand it "you can be
listed as long as you are providing services to projects"
J
út 22. 8. 2017 v 0:11 odesílatel Jeff McKenna
<jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>>
napsal:
On 2017-08-21 5:11 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> For your page
> http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/service-providers/opengeolabs/ Is
that a
> single consultant (you!) or a company?
> (or perhaps it is just a company with one person in it)
>
Hi Jody,
Regarding separating the OSGeo community by size, I suggest that we
avoid offending our community members, so let's stay positive and make
the following change:
I recommend that we/OSGeo change the "Organization Type" section to
contain the following 4 options:
1. Private
2. Academic/Research
3. Public/Government
4. Non-profit
The same 4 options should be applied to the options in the "Filter"
search on the site for "Service Provider Type".
Thanks.
Jachym: you did a great job on the OpenGeoLabs page, and thanks for
supporting OSGeo all of these years :)
-jeff
--
Jeff McKenna
President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna
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