On 2017-09-21 8:02 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 21/09/17 19:54, María Arias de Reyna wrote:
In fact, publishing blog posts comparing closed and FLOSS is also very
helpful. If you are doubting what kind of software to use, a good
comparison with table feature comparisons is very handy But that
should be outside the project page, because we are not begging for
users. We are strong projects on our own, we don't need to keep
continuously comparing to the closed alternatives for users to know
what we do.
Uplifting tweet of the week:
"Jon Kuperman @jkup
Stop treating open source like a product you purchased and start
treating it like a team you belong to."
https://twitter.com/jkup/status/909887066103676928
Referring to proprietary GIS on the OSGeo website risks misleading users
that OSGeo projects are just competing products. We offer something that
proprietary GIS never can: the opportunity to join a community of peers.
Kind regards,
Thank you Ben, this is absolutely correct: we have an amazing vibrant
community, and we need a front-end website that fosters and promotes
OSGeo projects (especially those in OSGeo incubation as well as OSGeo
Community projects) and OSGeo initiatives such as the Summer of Code.
Period. Full stop. This is what our community is good at, and why we
are so desired today. From experience I can tell you that this
struggle, that is being put forth here, will just separate our community
(you can see it is already) and make the community weaker.
Let us help our OSGeo community grow. Don't worry about competing
organizations (trust me they are fine, they have big money for marketing
and teams of people working on that), just focus on OSGeo and our
wonderful community.
I am setting up an OSGeo "Website Management Team" now, to help bring
the focus on the OSGeo community, manage the website (and WordPress
theme), security, backups, content etc, and will propose this to OSGeo's
Systems committee and OSGeo Board; for the longterm maintenance of the
website. I imagine during this maintenance process we will be removing
these unnecessary promotions, and focus on the OSGeo community (us).
We'll leave promotion of other things for those with the big money ha,
as they have the big funding for their products, as you mentioned. We
will focus on the OSGeo community.
Thanks Ben,
-jeff
--
Jeff McKenna
President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna
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