Le Monday 03 August 2009 20:13:09 Frank Warmerdam, vous avez écrit : > Yves Jacolin (free) wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Anyone could tell me it there are any plan for improving the Service > > Provider [1] ? > > > > For instance, add more information about service provided by each company > > like formation, support, custom dev, development of OSGeo application, > > etc. > > Yves, > > There was a plan to add indicators for service providers that had > contributed back to the community in a variety of ways (sponsorships, > supporting projects with developers, etc), but it never was implemented. > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SPD_Prioritization > > I have tried to avoid attempting to describe services in too much detail > within the application itself, and instead *hoped* that organizations would > provide a landing page that gave a good description of their services > appropriate to people coming from the service provider directory. > > Organizations provide a wide set of services, and it is hard to describe > them consistently for searching purposes. I think it is better to see the > SPD as giving pointers to service providers that the searcher can then > research more deeply using other mechanisms. > > Also, keep in mind that we do not currently vette organizations and the > more complicated the classification the more inconsistently it is likely to > be applied. We already have the problems that service providers which to > list lots of countries where they are willing to operate while we really > want that field to indicate countries where they have existing staff on the > ground in an office. > > Best regards,
Many thanks for your answer Frank, it gives me some interesting information :) Y. -- Yves Jacolin Ne demandez pas si vous pouvez contribuer, contribuez ! :) --- http://softlibre.gloobe.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
