Sorry, I'm coming to this thread a bit late. I agree that it is in appropriate to sprinkle marketing through OL wiki pages. It wasn't what I was thinking when creating the link, but I see how it can be taken that way. (My intent was to show that there is both an individual willing to mentor in the SOC, and also a company backing the mentor).
Christopher Schmidt wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:27:39PM -0700, Tim Schaub wrote: > >> Hey- >> >> Something about links to marketing pages on the OL wiki bugs me. >> http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/SummerOfCode?action=diff&version=28 >> >> If you've got a nice demo using OpenLayers, I think the Gallery page is >> an appropriate place. If you've got a project using OpenLayers, I think >> it's great that our wiki references it. However, until we decide that >> we're going to have a page for people selling services around >> OpenLayers, I don't feel that great about links getting dropped around >> the wiki. >> >> Anybody else have any thoughts? >> > > Totally agree. I'm generally in favor of people making money off of > OpenLayers: That's fine. But figuring out how to do that is not an > OpenLayers problem, it's an external problem. > > I also have no problem with users mentioning their affiliation in > wikipages where appropriate. Before reading this email, I edited the > page to do exactly that, because I think that's a perfectly acceptable > piece of information to share, if people think it's important to their > mentoring in SoC. > > I encourage all organizations who support OpenLayers software to > register for the OSGeo Service Provider directory. I see that LISAsoft, > for example, is listed there already, as is TOPP, DM Solutions, etc. Any > time a user asks where they can find out about commercial support for > OpenLayers, I have no problem with them being directed to > http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile?SET=1&MUL_TECH%5B%5D=00038 , the > OSGeo SPD. > > However, in general, commercial support for OpenLayers/corporate > marketing materials are beyond the scope of the mailing list and the > wiki. > > In order to ensure that we have an agreed upon standard for this, I'd > like to suggest that we adopt a mailing list policy that recommends that > offers of commercial support only be offered off the mailing list. (What > you do off the mailing list is up to you.) The reason for not wanting > such things on the mailing list is pretty clear: it's a matter of scale. > There are more than 40 organizations listed in the OSGeo SPD as offering > support: if all of them replied to every user who had a problem offering > commercial support, it would by far drown out the mailing list traffic > and decrease the utility of the list. > > Note that this doesn't apply, in my mind, to things like signatures, > which often have some implicit advertistement. > > If there is a desire to maintain some set of providers beyond the OSGeo > infrastructure, either in the OL Wiki, or somewhere else, we should > discuss that, but in general, I think that just mentioning a company > name is plenty of information for wiki or mailing list purposes. > > 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 _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
