Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

To run this topic into the ground, we will end up with a small distinction between "open source projects" (software + community) and "project teams" (the developers producing the software). In the examples that started this conversation: - The gvSig association has several open source projects,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

Jody We can get that into a concise text Steven > On 22 Sep 2017, at 18:16, Jody Garnett wrote: > > I am going to grab a couple quotes from the other email thread: > Maria: Our projects are much more than pieces of code. Behind our software > there are communities >

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

I am going to grab a couple quotes from the other email thread: - Maria: *Our projects are much more than pieces of code. Behind our software there are communities* - Ben passing on: "Jon Kuperman‏ @jkup Stop treating open source like a product you purchased and start treating it like

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

Enterprise (or even Enterprises) -Patrick From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jody Garnett Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 3:03 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects I would like to bring to discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

Thanks Tom, you kind of confirm that listing software (program, application,technology) right direction - even if it hurts my heart. You are correct that "someone looking to migrate" is the primary audience of this. Indeed the other email thread has a tradeoff of providing a "Similar Proprietary

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

> I would like to bring to discuss a question that we are struggling with for > the website/rebranding - do we present "open source software" or "open source > projects"? > I am personally having a hard time thinking in terms of software since I like > the fact that open source project

[OSGeo-Discuss] presenting open source software or open source projects

I would like to bring to discuss a question that we are struggling with for the website/rebranding - do we present "open source software" or "open source projects"? This is not an easy answer, as the earlier discussion on this list did not know how to recognize projects doing a rewrite (example