sorry, resend as this email address wasn't subscribed to list.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Bruce Bannerman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote">How about if this was sold as Jeff McKenna alluded to during our conference call?<br>
<br><br>"Step up to the plate and show the world how good and how interoperable your spatial software is.<br>
<br>Compete on an even playing field, with a neutral umpire, using the same data and server.<br><br>The spatial world will be watching the results."<br><br><br>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).<br>
<br><br>fwiw<br><br><br>Bruce Bannerman<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: Paul Ramsey [mailto:<a href="mailto:pramsey@cleverelephant.ca" target="_blank">pramsey@cleverelephant.ca</a>]<br>
> Sent: Friday, 7 November 2008 4:32 AM<br>
> To: mapbutcher<br>
> Cc: Cameron Shorter; foss4g2009; Jeff McKenna; Bruce<br>
> Bannerman; Greg Buehler; Justin Deoliveira<br>
> Subject: Re: [Foss4g2009] Re: Geospatial Integration Showcase<br>
> - meeting notes [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]<br>
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> The 2007 experience very much validates Simon. In the end,<br>
> Justin and DaveP volunteered a good deal of time to put the<br>
> foundation elements into place for a showcase (data gathered,<br>
> documented with metadata on the wiki, loaded into public<br>
> PostGIS instance) and nobody else showed up and helped.<br>
> Vendors were too busy with other things to dedicate even the<br>
> time to stand up a demo on the public data, despite lots of<br>
> harassment on our part. Even folks like DM Solutions didn't step up.<br>
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> Catch-22, if you expect everyone to come and add their<br>
> ingredients to the stew, they won't. If you just do it all<br>
> yourself, well, it's not much of an "integration" showcase<br>
> anymore, is it?<br>
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> P.<br>
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> 2008/11/6 mapbutcher <<a href="mailto:mapbutcher@mapbutcher.com" target="_blank">mapbutcher@mapbutcher.com</a>>:<br>
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> > I think your proposed vision is valid and I'm not wanting to spread<br>
> > FUD its just that i'd like to move the agenda beyond the<br>
> vision. Even<br>
> > providing a very basic infrastructure and basic<br>
> scenario/data i think<br>
> > you under estimate the work involved and more importantly i<br>
> think we<br>
> > run the risk of going where others have gone before?<br>
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