Hi Frank,
On Feb 1, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
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.
Yes
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?
Yes for what I'm concerned.
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 think a PSC should establish a policy for their own project and
possibly provide such listing on their own project website in the
first place. This could be liberal for some, more conservative for
others. OSGeo should follow the projects policy if it exists.
To keep this manageable, OSGeo probably could be as strict as the most
conservative policy (hehe, I'm sure there's many that don't like
that ;-) ). In that way we can avoid that OSGeo lists service
providers for a project that the project PSC itself is not happy with.
If OSGeo wants to be as liberal as the most liberal PSC policy, adding
a service provider fore sure requires more management.
Maybe incubation should require a project to accept an OSGeo policy on
this!?
... And we had 200 more meetings before reaching consensus 8-) ...
My 2c, ciao,
Jeroen
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