Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Is it possible for properitery GIS vendor to market thier properitery product as Open ?

2017-03-29 Thread Kiringai Kamau
Thanks SuchithI love your passion! On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Suchith Anand < suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > Kiringai and all, > > Thanks to all who send your feedbacks from different perspectives to my > query. Openness means being open to different perspectives ,ideas, >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] Is it possible for properitery GIS vendor to market thier properitery product as Open ?

2017-03-29 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Mike, Thanks for this excellent updates . It is great to see SDI-Open developments and i am sure it is great opportunity to expand ideas. Good to have Mamata Akella, from CartoDB, Inc., USA, to speak on this topic and have discussions. It will be great if the workshop summary is shared

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] (no subject)

2017-03-29 Thread Luí­s Moreira de Sousa
Dear all, In my experience maintenance and operational costs are far higher with proprietary software than with open source. With some licenced products operational costs are actually the largest slice of the budget. But well, that is only the experience of a single individual. However, in

[OSGeo-Discuss] Terms and definitions: Free and Open Source Software (for Geospatial)

2017-03-29 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
Folks, every now and then terms used in discussions get a bit fuzzy resulting in misunderstandings. We need to be very clear in our wording to avoid this. There are two terms describing the open and free approach: * Open Source (mostly a development model) * Free Software (mostly a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] (no subject)

2017-03-29 Thread Arnulf Christl
Kiringai, thanks for your thoughts but I cannot quite follow your argument. Or rather, you are just reiterating an old claim by some proprietary vendors stating that their software provides more operations security /due to being developed in a proprietary model/. This claim has never been

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Geo4All] Ideas for the building global research agenda for Geospatial Data Science - Telemeeting link for those connecting remotely

2017-03-29 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Cameron, Thank you for raising this important point on the need for coordinated collaboration with periodic release cycles, development guidelines and templates, and quality control etc for educational materials for Data Science training needs. I will bring this up for discussions and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Wiki: InfrastructurePreferencesStatusQuo - call for update

2017-03-29 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 02:56:16PM -0300, Jeff McKenna wrote: > On 2017-03-21 12:19 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote: > > > > > >RE: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/InfrastructurePreferencesStatusQuo > > Yes the FOSS4G-Boston site is in OSGeo Gogs (at >