Jody,
This is a very good point.
(comments continue below...)
On 9/20/17 1:19 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
On 20 September 2017 at 12:44, Maria Antonia Brovelli
<maria.brove...@polimi.it <mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it>> wrote:
Jody this is not respectful of me and the community. Might I know
why the people working for the project want ABSOLUTELY to keep the
names and links to proprietary software on our open source
software website?
I feel a bit of pressure to express myself exactly correctly on this
outreach topic; or risk people missing the point ... The outreach
approach was determined months ago when going over our target audience
(literally what the website is for). Te website was defined with these
visitor journey's in mind...
The primary audience for the website is non-community members:
- ESRI GIS Professional (GISP), IT Professionals, Academic Faculty,
Academic Students, Science and Research, Influencers & Decision
makers, Software Developers
- the communication goal is to promote awareness - asking
non-community members to consider and evaluate
- the next goal is adoption - assisting non-community members in
adopting open source
- the final foal is impress - having non-community members be
enthusiastic and advocate open source
The secondary audience is community members:
- osgeo members, partners, service providers, sponsors, contributors
- the steps awarness, adoption, impress reflect contributing to open
source
- many of the community member activities are taking place on the wiki
and are happy to remain there.
When talking to the broader GIS community, it's important to keep in
mind two things:
- most GIS users are more familiar with ESRI & Google tools
- most of what passes for standards are either defacto (ESRI & Google
formats & APIs), or developed by OGC - which is an industry consortium
- lots of folks utilize a combination of tools - some open source, some
not (e.g., folks who use MapServer to serve databases maintained on ArcGIS).
Taken together, if the intent of the site is to educate & support GIS
users, and promote open source geo tools - then the site really has to
address compatibility, and hybrid environments. Links to commercial
equivalents - perhaps with reviews and comparisons - provides a lot of
value (e.g., when trying to figure out how to use OpenLayers to view
layers that come from a mix of ESRI, Google, and OGC-compliant sources.
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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