Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-21 Thread Jody Garnett
Marc there is also the opportunity for us to grow as an organization. Many of the points brought up in this discussion, and the earlier one on listing open source projects, were voiced by myself back in March as I gradually came to terms with this scope of work. I think it was Jeffrey who first

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-21 Thread Marc Vloemans
Hi all, An observation from my end: this apparently has become an argument to frame a person - who has done more for our community than I can list - as if he is insulting and offending that same community. Unsuccessfully, I am glad. From the almost deadly silence I deduct no collective cry

[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-20 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
Jody this is not respectful of me and the community. Might I know why the people working for the project want ABSOLUTELY to keep the names and links to proprietary software on our open source software website? Anyhow, I think that the Board can express ourselves about this point. I remember

[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-20 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
Dear Jody Personally I agree with Helmut and I don't see any necessity of putting "similar proprietary software" on our web pages. I don't think proprietary software need to be advertized. We are a Foundation about Open Software and I want to see the open source projects on the website that we

[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Marketing] Proprietary GIS on our OSGeo website

2017-09-20 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli
Jody, I see very difficult the existence of a vast majority of GIS industry that has honestly not heard about open source yet. Anyway I refuse the idea of "similar proprietary software" because our projects are much more than pieces of code. Behind our software there are communities and