Re: [board-discuss] Big organisations not contributing

2020-07-17 Thread Michael Meeks
On 14/07/2020 12:22, Sophi wrote: > There is another item here, I know several orgs buying services from > companies that are not good players with FLOSS communities. This is > something in my view which is important to address Absolutely. So - the original plan here was not just just

Re: [board-discuss] Big organisations not contributing

2020-07-14 Thread Kev M
>Did I mention that ~no government person has a business card: you can meet >them at a conference and chat to them while they pass by your very expensive >booth, but following that up and turning it into sales is really tough. They >also tend to operate on a timescale that is extraordinarily

Re: [board-discuss] Big organisations not contributing

2020-07-14 Thread sophi
Hi, Le 14/07/2020 à 12:58, Sam Tuke a écrit : > This thread seems to be conflating separate things: > > On 14/07/2020 11:15, Michael Meeks wrote: >> On 13/07/2020 22:07, Leo Moons wrote: >>> It strikes me that there's a lot of talk about large organizations, >>> that don't contribute to the

Re: [board-discuss] Big organisations not contributing

2020-07-14 Thread Sam Tuke
This thread seems to be conflating separate things: On 14/07/2020 11:15, Michael Meeks wrote: > On 13/07/2020 22:07, Leo Moons wrote: >> It strikes me that there's a lot of talk about large organizations, >> that don't contribute to the community. Meaning that: 1) large orgs should donate to

Re: [board-discuss] Big organisations not contributing

2020-07-14 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Leo, On 13/07/2020 22:07, Leo Moons wrote: > It strikes me that there's a lot of talk about large organizations, that > don't contribute to the community. But why not talk to these > organizations? Its a good idea, and of course everyone is trying to do that. For example when C'bra

[board-discuss] Big organisations not contributing

2020-07-13 Thread Leo Moons
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