A couple of months back I asked whether their was any contribution guidance that we offered to organisations using OSGeo software. Apart from Jody’s reply there wasn’t any response. I think we are missing an opportunity to encourage and help user organisations to contribute time and/or funding to OSGeo and it’s projects, so I have written this blog post http://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch/ which sets out some thoughts on "Good practice for organisations using OSGeo software”. Hopefully it will prompt some discussion. I have posted on my blog as I didn’t feel that I should post something as speculative as this on the wiki without community endorsement, whenever people want we can move a version to the wiki. Feel free to comment on this mail thread or on the blog. ____________ Steven Feldman
On 5 May 2014, at 04:57, Jody Garnett <[email protected]> wrote: > You may like to at what Arnulf has been doing towards certification. > Endorsing is a trickery game indeed. > > For GeoServer we simply list organizations, noting what kind of work each is > known for ( but not offering an endorsement). > > http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Commercial+Support > > On Sunday, May 4, 2014, Steven Feldman <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Jody > > I would like to have a document or web link to point at as the start of a > conversation with an organisation. It can’t be mandatory but we might want to > consider community endorsement of organisations which adopt the charter or > 'social contract' > > I’ll start a wiki page with a few thoughts and open it up for others to > contribute their views > ______ > Steven > > > On 2 May 2014, at 12:14, Jody Garnett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think you are leaning towards the "social contract" associated with being >> part of a community. >> >> For organisations that do not wish to participate, that is fine. >> Participation is one way of minimising the risks associated with the use of >> open source software, as long as they are making that decision with a decent >> understanding that is fine. >> >> The way I figure it they will get burned a few times before taking >> interesting in participation :) But yeah if you are talking to managers >> speak in terms of risk and change control, not community/participation - >> know your audience. >> >> I think I had a rant about the social contact last year, it produced one >> more tester of GeoServer - making the process of issuing release candidates >> suspect. >> -- >> Jody Garnett > > > > -- > Jody Garnett >
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