Hi Greg I agree with your sentiments.
On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 08:34, Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > Emma Hain <e...@north-road.com> writes: > > > Hi All > > Just helping Pankajeshwara > > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/pankajeshwara/?originalSubdomain=nz>here > as we > > have had connections within the FOSS4G Oceania community and he presented > > <https://youtu.be/7Yx3liBvb14?si=OietOxgxDVyba5dz>at our regional > > conference last year. > > > > He is trying to make this plugin the best that he can. From my > > understanding, he has developed this concept from the basis of protecting > > Indigenous data through trust to increase sovereignty and has a strong > > background in OSS. > > Pankaj I believe currently works on his own having finished his tenure > as a > > research fellow at University of Auckland. Here is his github: sharmapn > > <https://github.com/sharmapn> > > > > Can the community assist if you feel this is not the forum for his > > questions, guide him elsewhere or in other methods - e.g. would you say > > that perhaps for him to target a possible discipline or user group > rather > > than this email list? > > Thanks for the info. > > I think the key question is whether this is an individual working on > open source code, or some kind of company effort with a monetization > plan. If the latter, then it should be transparently described and > people working on behalf of a company should post from a company domain > and identify themselves as such. > > That's really all I was getting at; it was a post from gmail, with we, > and buzzwordy description, so it just didn't seem like it was not > corporate and it wasn't labeled either. Explaining the situation is > very easy and should take less time than it took to write your email and > mine combined. Unless people aren't authorized to speak plainly of > course. > > (I don't mean so say that anything a company does is bad either.) > > > -- Emma Hain — Product Manager/Senior GIS Analyst e...@north-road.com [image: https://north-road.com] *North Road* Cartography • Development • Spatial Analysis ------------------------------ *north-road.com* <http://north-road.com> <https://twitter.com/northroadgeo> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/north-road-studios> <https://www.facebook.com/North-Road-997236690392419/home>
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