Suchith, I agree with Marc's points.
I notice a similar discussion on the OSGeo Board thread about joining GEO.
I think there is little value in setting up "trophy" MOUs or becoming
members of communities unless we have specific community members who are
actively wanting to get involved. So steps I'd suggest:
1. Find our community members who want involvement
2. If our community members feel that joining some external group will
help our community be more effective, then OSGeo supports them in the
activity.
At the moment, I don't think we have passed step 1 yet.
On 2/2/18 12:03 am, Suchith Anand wrote:
Thanks Marc. I am trying to think ideas to make sure that OSGeo is
involved in all levels at all different forums for maximising impact.
We are very active in the UNGGIM Academic Network (thanks to Maria).
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2018-January/037059.html
We need to be more active in regional networks in UNGGIM and spread
our ideas.We need champions to spread ideas in UNGGIM Private Sector
and the main way to do this is to join these networks . As far as I am
aware they are free to join at http://unggim-psn.org/psn-members.html
Best wishes,
Suchith
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*From:* Marc Vloemans <marcvloema...@gmail.com>
*Sent:* 01 February 2018 11:43
*To:* Suchith Anand
*Cc:* discuss@lists.osgeo.org
*Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UNGGIM Private Sector
Thx Suchith,
However I struggle to see the opportunities for SME’s in particular.
Especially, since these make up for the large part of the present
OSGeo sponsors.
I think the argument to join the initiative needs to be SMART.
Otherwise it is a plea in a virtual ocean of requests upon open source
businesses.
Apologies, but I can not bolster the argument for joining. Perhaps
others on the list can help you.
Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans
Op 1 feb. 2018 om 12:33 heeft Suchith Anand
<suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk
<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> het volgende geschreven:
Hi Marc,
I do not have any expertise in this but seeing all the companies who
have joined this already ( including many proprietary GIS
companies), it is important that SMEs in the OSGeo ecosytem should
be part of this to make sure there is balance of opportunities for
everyone.
Best wishes,
Suchith
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*From:* Marc Vloemans <marcvloema...@gmail.com
<mailto:marcvloema...@gmail.com>>
*Sent:* 01 February 2018 11:24
*To:* Suchith Anand
*Cc:* discuss@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>
*Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] UNGGIM Private Sector
Hi Suchith,
What would be the business value of joining as an SME or other
(commercial) company?
Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans
Op 1 feb. 2018 om 12:09 heeft Suchith Anand
<suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk
<mailto:suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk>> het volgende geschreven:
I was looking at UNGGIM Private Sector website and I didn’t much
presence of commercial sector in the OSGeo ecosystem in the UNGGIM
Private Sector Network.
There are lot of SMEs in the OSGeo ecosystem and I think this will
be a good opportunity for the commercial sector in the OSGeo
ecosystem [2] to join this network at
http://unggim-psn.org/psn-members.html and proactively engage with
UNGGIM Private Sector
Best wishes,
Suchith
[1] https://www.osgeo.org/service-providers/
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