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<p>Jody,</p>
<p>This is a very good point. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/20/17 1:19 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On 20 September 2017 at 12:44, Maria Antonia
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<div>Jody this is not respectful of me and the
community. Might I know why the people working for
the project want ABSOLUTELY to keep the names and
links to proprietary software on our open source
software website? </div>
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<div>I feel a bit of pressure to express myself exactly
correctly on this outreach topic; or risk people missing
the point ... The outreach approach was determined
months ago when going over our target audience
(literally what the website is for). Te website was
defined with these visitor journey's in mind...</div>
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<div>The primary audience for the website is non-community
members:</div>
<div>- ESRI GIS Professional (GISP), IT Professionals,
Academic Faculty<span style="white-space:pre">, </span>Academic
Students<span style="white-space:pre">, </span>Science and
Research<span style="white-space:pre">, </span>Influencers
& Decision makers<span style="white-space:pre">, </span>Software
Developers</div>
<div>- the communication goal is to promote awareness -
asking non-community members to consider and evaluate</div>
<div>- the next goal is adoption - assisting non-community
members in adopting open source</div>
<div>- the final foal is impress - having non-community
members be enthusiastic and advocate open source</div>
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<div>The secondary audience is community members:</div>
<div>- osgeo members, partners, service providers, sponsors,
contributors</div>
<div>- the steps awarness, adoption, impress reflect
contributing to open source</div>
<div>- many of the community member activities are taking
place on the wiki and are happy to remain there.</div>
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When talking to the broader GIS community, it's important to keep in
mind two things:<br>
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- most GIS users are more familiar with ESRI & Google tools <br>
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- most of what passes for standards are either defacto (ESRI &
Google formats & APIs), or developed by OGC - which is an
industry consortium<br>
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- lots of folks utilize a combination of tools - some open source,
some not (e.g., folks who use MapServer to serve databases
maintained on ArcGIS).<br>
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Taken together, if the intent of the site is to educate &
support GIS users, and promote open source geo tools - then the site
really has to address compatibility, and hybrid environments. Links
to commercial equivalents - perhaps with reviews and comparisons -
provides a lot of value (e.g., when trying to figure out how to use
OpenLayers to view layers that come from a mix of ESRI, Google, and
OGC-compliant sources.<br>
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Miles Fidelman<br>
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra</pre>
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