<div dir="ltr">Small clarification on LocationTech:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">
OSGeo is about mutually sharing experiences, ideas, solutions not building business. For this LocationTech which is a community of companies / entities I understood is more suited.<br></p></div></blockquote><div>I have very much joined LocationTech as an individual and have the pleasure of working with a diverse range of people from a range of organizations. </div><div><br></div><div>Specifically LocationTech is focused on open source software and outreach. The organization does very well at supporting those who are new to open source (providing a governance model to follow) and provides excellent resources and support for projects that join.</div><div><br></div><div>* You may be surprised that OSGeo has more of a business focus - during incubation we check if a project is viable in the business sense as we are risk adverse to project our members. </div><div>* By contrast LocationTech lets market forces (ie popularity) determine which projects succeed and fail and does not consider this factor when evaluating a project.</div><div><br></div><div>Neither foundation provides business development, although events such as foss4g or the locationtech tour can certainly provide sponsorship opportunities and an opportunity to meet community members (and customers).</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>