Just a note we can also use this opening marketing departments provide to
have a good conversation about what open source communities and foundations
offer beyond what even the best open washing can dress up as. We can also
include the open source companies on our service providers list as
I figured out what makes me sad about this ... many of the pictures in our
foss4g group are not marked creative commons so we are gong to have to let
them go...
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Jody Garnett
On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 at 16:31, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Flickr announced a 1000 picture cap (
>
Geocities.
Tom
Jody Garnett wrote:
Flickr announced a 1000 picture cap
(https://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/11/01/changing-flickr-free-accounts-1000-photos/)
so we may need to rescue some of our early foss4g pictures.
Any good recommendations?
--
Jody Garnett
Tom Chadwin, ICT Manager
Perhaps Media Goblin?
https://mediagoblin.org/
-Guido
On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 5:42 PM Nicolas Roelandt
wrote:
> Maybe an instance of pixelfed?
>
> https://pixelfed.social/
>
> So we host our services ourselves.
>
> Best,
>
> Nicolas Roelandt
>
> Le ven. 2 nov. 2018 à 22:32, Jody Garnett a
>
Maybe an instance of pixelfed?
https://pixelfed.social/
So we host our services ourselves.
Best,
Nicolas Roelandt
Le ven. 2 nov. 2018 à 22:32, Jody Garnett a écrit :
> Flickr announced a 1000 picture cap (
> https://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/11/01/changing-flickr-free-accounts-1000-photos/)
>
Flickr announced a 1000 picture cap (
https://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/11/01/changing-flickr-free-accounts-1000-photos/)
so we may need to rescue some of our early foss4g pictures.
Any good recommendations?
--
Jody Garnett
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I was requested to share this course info. which might be of interest to some
of you.
Best wishes,
Suchith
From: Klug Hermann
Sent: 02 November 2018 08:30
To: Klug Hermann
Subject: UNIGIS MSc distance learning program on GIS for the Environment
Thanks for this information.
This looks like misleading marketing/sales from any vendors if most of these
"open-source solutions" still *require* a proprietary GIS!
Best wishes,
Suchith
From: Discuss on behalf of Barry Rowlingson
Sent: Friday, November
Let's see what the main player has to say about open source:
http://www.esriuk.com/software/open/open-source
"As part of Esri’s technology and business strategy, we release and
support open-source software. We have shared 350+ open-source projects
on the developer collaboration platform GitHub.
Thank you for sharing this information .
If there are more examples of GIS vendors , please share so the wider GIS user
community can learn from this.
It is important that consumers are not tricked by any clever marketing
strategies by any vendors and consumer rights are fully protected.
Hi,
I have absolutely no problem with Get Interactive created our new logo
using proprietary software, and the job was nicely done btw.
However, i fully agree with Maxi's comment here ( and i like the
provocative comparison pretty much :) )
The following fixes this concern, among few others:
I came across this term OpenWashing at http://openwashing.org
Openwashing: to spin a product or company as open, although it is not. Derived
from 'greenwashing.'
Openwashing: n., having an appearance of open-source and open-licensing for
marketing purposes, while continuing proprietary
Hi Luigi ,
Thank you for your email on this important topic. Please feel free to make use
of any background materials from the open letter that I send in November 2017
to RGS (UK) requesting to support open principles in Geoeducation and include
Open principles in the Geography Ambassador
On 15th June 2018, I have emailed UN GGIM on the need to work together with the
OSGeo and GeoForAll community for enabling geoeducation and entrepreneurship
opportunities for all (esp. for the economically poor worldwide). I haven’t got
any response so far.
It is very important the UN GGIM
Forwarding nomination of Michael Smith by Daniel Morissette. The Board
Nominations page has been updated:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Member_Nominations_2018
Vasile, Vicky & Jorge
CRO 2018 Elections
Forwarded Message
Subject: OSGeo Board nomination for Michael Smith
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