Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

2009-12-18 Thread Luis W. Sevilla
Hi As I have some perspective about gvSIG (I was directly involved last 6 years), I may suggest you to contact directly with people in charge of the project both in main founder and two main contractors: CIT (Generalitat Valenciana): Martín García or Gabriel Carrión IVER: Pepe Vidal or Alvaro

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

2009-12-18 Thread Rafal Wawer
: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models Hi Rafal, I've been mentioned, so I'm involved ;-) I can give you some generic hints. I suggest (if you haven't) having a look at Wikinomics [1]. Regarding gvSIG, there are not metric data collected so far. I can tell you that companies

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

2009-12-16 Thread Rafal Wawer
Dear Daniele, No need to be sorry. The hasty was with the (-; (-: Anyway - please consider reformulating the sentence. I will suggest contacting someone from gvSIG (http://www.gvsig.org/web/) and ask for help - I am sure gvSIG wil be happy to cooperate. I am looking forward to the final

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

2009-11-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
daniele.ocu ocu wrote: Dear all, Thank you very much for your comments and suggestions on reading material about business and FOSS4G. The idea for this report would be a summary with metrics showing how companies have changed after adopting FOSS4G. It would be a document to present why

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

2009-11-25 Thread Rafal Wawer
...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ravi Sent: 25 November 2009 08:46 To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models Hi, some examples about how different European cities have shifted to FOSS GIS for, traffic management

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

2009-11-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: I think what Daniele is looking for is some kind of a How to convince a venture (or social) captitalist to invest in FOSS4G technnologies and/or companies. Guess the venture capitalist would be inerested to see some statistical data on how FOSS4G based companies are

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

2009-11-24 Thread Charlie Schweik
Hi Daniele, It would be great if some of the business leaders in the OSGeo community could provide me with inputs for the report. Your input will not only help me convince them that FOSS4G is worth it (I am already convinced, but need some data to support my claim) but also help me to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

2009-11-24 Thread Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)
Hi all, A friend of mine at a medium-sized IT company in Japan needs to convince his company management and finances to invest in FOSS4G technologies over the next 5 years. The company presently does a small part of its business using FOSS4G tools but is wondering if it should take a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

2009-11-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
One more reference: Wikipedia's history of open source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_history) has a pretty good discussion of the early days of software development - when pretty much everything was open source, but the term had not been coined yet. Miles Miles Fidelman wrote:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

2009-11-24 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi All, Nice to see responses to the intresting thread started bu Daniele. I think what Daniele is looking for is some kind of a How to convince a venture (or social) captitalist to invest in FOSS4G technnologies and/or companies. Guess the venture capitalist would be inerested to see some

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

2009-11-24 Thread Frans Thamura
i am glad if the support services linked in the osgeo.org website also, to bring corporate trust and a contact, that may be we can link to bring great branding program -- Frans Thamura Meruvian. Experiential Tempation of Java and Enterprise OpenSource Meruvian bukan hanya membuat anak SMK

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

2009-11-24 Thread Ravi
: From: Venkatesh Raghavan ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org, OSGeo Marketing market...@lists.osgeo.org Date: Wednesday, 25 November, 2009, 9:09 AM Hi All, Nice to see responses

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Question about FOSS4G Business Models

2009-11-23 Thread Martin Seiler
Hi Daniele, It would be great if some of the business leaders in the OSGeo community could provide me with inputs for the report. Your input will not only help me convince them that FOSS4G is worth it (I am already convinced, but need some data to support my claim) but also help me to