I completely agree with Andy. There are a number of areas where support and sponsorship will make a significant difference to MapGuide Open Source - Maestro development, Performance and stability improvements for open source providers like GDAL, Enhancements and bug fixes for Fusion, Builds/testing/code review infrastructure, etc.
The Project Sponsorship RFC is out for review http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc83. Any questions or comments, for example sign me up for $X, are welcome. Sorry for the shameless plug... Trevor -----Original Message----- From: mapguide-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andy Morsell Sent: September 17, 2009 10:57 AM To: 'MapGuide Users Mail List' Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] web studio help! Yes, I really disliked that sales strategy since I was often recommending to my MapGuide Open Source customers that they buy Autodesk Studio. That approach by customers was probably one of the primary reasons for Autodesk's rationale and they also needed some way to further separate MapGuide Enterprise from MapGuide Open Source - so I get it from that standpoint even though it sucks for us in some ways. Kenneth has done an amazing job with Maestro, however, and I think the community should continue to support him in any way possible with the future development and enhancement of that package. Andy -----Original Message----- From: mapguide-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jonio, Dennis (Aviation) Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 9:22 AM To: MapGuide Users Mail List Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] web studio help! We were very, very disappointed in Autodesk once again. A little-strong arm if you ask me. Especially for those of us who had Studio from the get-go. Maybe we should all work on cloning a few Kenneth Skovhedes'? ;-) r, dennis -----Original Message----- From: mapguide-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andy Morsell That's an interesting view of paying thousands of dollars when you only want a license of Autodesk Studio to work with MapGuide Open Source...... I would rather see Autodesk make Studio available as a stand-alone product again at a reasonable IDE price and then have people contribute any remaining money directly to the MapGuide Open Source project. That way we KNOW those funds will be used for that project and that project only. Andy Morsell, P.E. Spatial Integrators, Inc. 47° 46' N 116° 49' W www.SpatialGIS.com -----Original Message----- From: mapguide-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Zac Spitzer Studio is available for MGOS, you just need to take out a subscription for mapguide enterprise which bundles studio, which is in effect sponsoring the bulk of the mapguide / fdo project developers and plus gets you access to autodesk support... z _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list mapguide-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list mapguide-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list mapguide-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users