Do people think the Mapbuilder PSC should rank Mapbuilder support companies/people as suggested below?
Frank Warmerdam wrote: > Folks, > > Having triggered quite a bit of fruitful discussion on the Jobs posting > question, I'm now returning to an earlier effort - the Service Provider > Directory (SPD). > > This is basically a listing of contractors, integrators and solution > providers > prepared to offer various sorts of services around open source geospatial > technologies. It has been online now for roughly nine months, and has > quite > a substantial list of providers. However, the foundation has done > relatively > little to promote it and we still consider it to be in a "fine tuning" > phase. > > It was decided at the Board Meeting FOSS4G2007 that the Service Provider > Directory should give searchers some guidance on which service providers > are actually supporters of the foundation and projects. This helps > searchers > highlight the more involved service providers, and provides an > incentive for > organizations to support development and the foundation. > > This email is soliciting feedback from the community on this > "prioritization" > effort. A more complete discussion is available at: > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/SPD_Prioritization > > The base page describing the Service Provider Directory is at: > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Service_Provider_Directory > > The service provider itself is available off the main OSGeo page (under > the OSGeo Community heading) for those unfamiliar with it. > > Briefly, the proposal is to add a column in the service provider which > will indicate types of contribution by that service provider. This could > be in-kind contributions to a project (as determined by the project) or > sponsorship of the foundation. Service providers who are identified as > contributors will be listed ahead of service providers who are not > identified > as contributors in any search. > > However, being listed in the service provider directory would still be > free > and we would not otherwise discriminate against service providers who > have > not been identified as contributors. > > This email is seeking feedback from the community on two main items: > > 1) Does it seem acceptable to give preferential listing (via order of > returned results) to organizations identified as contributors? > > 2) Are project PSCs actually willing and interested in identifying > contributors > in a formal way? It would be up to projects to decide what criteria > they want > and to notify webcom of their contributors in some fashion. > > I'm also interested in general feedback on how to improve the service > provider directory and on the "prioritization" effort. Please read > over the > prioritization proposal for details. > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/SPD_Prioritization > > Best regards, -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ mapbuilder-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mapbuilder-devel
