Hi,
My quick 2 cents : I felt it weird too, and bring an unconfortable
feeling. (It doesnt question the capacity to organize a great event thought)
Have a lovely day all
Le 20/11/2024 à 03:23, John Bryant via Oceania a écrit :
Thanks for bringing it up Andrew J, it hasn't sat especially well with
me either. It was a great event, but it seemed incongruous to have a
vendor selling ArcGIS at a booth at a FOSS4G.
On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 at 21:02, Andrew Harvey via Oceania
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Hi Andrew,
Good on you for speaking up about your concerns! I'm sure you're
not the only one who had this thought.
Speaking from myself here, as far as I'm aware anyone can support
the conference financially through sponsorship without any other
requirements, but it would be up to the organising committee and
board if they did want to add additional conditions for accepting
sponsors.
However given ESRI's involvement with OpenStreetMap
(https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Esri), in particular their
"Esri World Imagery" which they provide to OpenStreetMap for
tracing features, and their OpenStreetMap powered basemaps which
help make it easier for people to consume OpenStreetMap data. I
would say they are very much a positive part of the OpenStreetMap
community and with FOSS4G SotM Oceania being a State of the Map
conference the more financial support we have from entities who
want to help OpenStreetMap the stronger OSGeo Oceania and the
conference will be.
Andrew Harvey
On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, at 10:07 PM, Andrew Jeffrey via Oceania wrote:
Hi All,
I hope everyone that was able to attend the FOSS4G SOTM Oceania
Hobart conference had a great time. I'm still very much bummed
that I wasn't able to make it down there and my only start at the
OO conference remains Melbourne in 2018. I plan on improving my
numbers as best I can into the future, but from the outside
looking in, it looked like all those that attended had a blast -
well done conference committee and OO board.
I am writing to the list because I have a question that has been
bugging me ever since I talked to a colleague who attended the
event. That question is "What's the deal with ESRI being
a sponsor?". I have genuine curiosity when it comes to the
decision process in having them on board. I understand these
things take money to put on and the conference needs to turn a
profit, a healthy conference makes for a healthy OO which allows
the organisation to do many of the great things that they do.
However, I think this sponsorship from ESRI should be
reconsidered in the future.
Just to be clear, I am not opposed to speakers who work for ESRI
coming and talking, from all reports the keynote from Kate Fickas
was amazing (as were all the keynotes from what I hear) and these
are the industry people that we all crave to hear from - top job
in landing that line up! But as for sponsorship I feel that ESRI
is putting their brand on a community that a lot of us turned to
when looking for refuge from them.
I acknowledge that my opinion on this is biased as a QGIS
advocate and trainer. But something about this just feels off! I
don't see what's in it for the FOSS4G community having ESRI
involved in our conferences, to me it looks more of a cheap way
for them to buy some good news without doing anything to improve
the relationship with the FOSS4G community.
However, I know I wasn't there, and I could be wrong about the
whole thing. Maybe the overwhelming opinion is that it's a good
thing and this is a step in the right direction? I would be
interested in hearing what people think and even hearing from
someone on the conference organising committee that has more
knowledge about this. Is this something the conference would do
again? Is there a limit to their involvement? What would have
happened if they were a platinum sponsor and got the primary logo
placement + verbal mention at opening and closing of the event?
Thanks
Andrew
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