[Foss4g2009] Re: Geospatial Integration Showcase - meeting notes

[Bruce Bannerman]

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On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Bruce Bannerman <
bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> How about if this was sold as Jeff McKenna alluded to during our conference
> call?
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> "Step up to the plate and show the world how good and how interoperable
> your spatial software is.
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> Compete on an even playing field, with a neutral umpire, using the same
> data and server.
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> The spatial world will be watching the results."
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> Of course, everyone will have the best software. If after the event they
> find that they don't, then there will be an incentive to do better the
> following year (at FOSS4Gnnnn).
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> fwiw
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> Bruce Bannerman
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Ramsey [mailto:pramsey at cleverelephant.ca]
> > Sent: Friday, 7 November 2008 4:32 AM
> > To: mapbutcher
> > Cc: Cameron Shorter; foss4g2009; Jeff McKenna; Bruce
> > Bannerman; Greg Buehler; Justin Deoliveira
> > Subject: Re: [Foss4g2009] Re: Geospatial Integration Showcase
> > - meeting notes [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
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> > The 2007 experience very much validates Simon. In the end,
> > Justin and DaveP volunteered a good deal of time to put the
> > foundation elements into place for a showcase (data gathered,
> > documented with metadata on the wiki, loaded into public
> > PostGIS instance) and nobody else showed up and helped.
> > Vendors were too busy with other things to dedicate even the
> > time to stand up a demo on the public data, despite lots of
> > harassment on our part. Even folks like DM Solutions didn't step up.
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> > Catch-22, if you expect everyone to come and add their
> > ingredients to the stew, they won't. If you just do it all
> > yourself, well, it's not much of an "integration" showcase
> > anymore, is it?
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> > P.
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> > 2008/11/6 mapbutcher <mapbutcher at mapbutcher.com>:
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> > > I think your proposed vision is valid and I'm not wanting to spread
> > > FUD its just that i'd like to move the agenda beyond the
> > vision. Even
> > > providing a very basic infrastructure and basic
> > scenario/data i think
> > > you under estimate the work involved and more importantly i
> > think we
> > > run the risk of going where others have gone before?
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