[OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

[Michael P. Gerlek]

I agree, we don't want to compete directly with anyone nor do we want to take an adversarial political stance.

However, I'd offer that while the level of awareness of open source GIS offerings has much improved over the past couple years, it still has a ways to go and OSGeo can be a force for good in that area.


-mpg


> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mateusz Loskot
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 7:58 AM
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo
> 
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 04:28:20PM +0200, Cédric Moullet wrote:
> >> I'm sorry (and unhappy) to say that the
> >> GIS leaders (ESRI, Autdoesk, Intergraph etc...) don't see OSGEO has
> an
> >> important contradictor: from my point of view, this is what needs to
> be
> >> changed in the next 5 years.
> >
> > If someone wants to compete with ESRI -- that's fine. We should
> > support them insofar as we can with community resources, shared
> userbases,
> > and feedback. But it is not the job of OSGeo to make these projects
> > successful -- only to help them succeed based on their own efforts.
> 
> Especially, when one or two  of the mentioned companies have supported
> OSGeo Foundation a lot.
> 
> A holy war is something that should be avoided at most. It should not
> be
> about how to compete and win the market, but about how to effectively
> collaborate in wide range of areas.
> 
> Best regards,
> --
> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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