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Hi Tyler,<br>
<br>
another valuable hint. I like this clear structuring of information -
which admittedly is a nontrivial process while building an
information-rich website. Actually, it is an act of continuously
striving for improvement. The recently added feature matrix was one
such point, here is another which I have put on our list.<br>
<br>
So thanks for your hints & clarifications,<br>
Peter<br>
<br>
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On 12/08/2010 06:33 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">On December 8, 2010
02:14:20 am Peter Baumann wrote:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> Cameron-</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> you have suggested to
remove all references to the commercial support of</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> rasdaman from the
rasdaman.org site.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> How does this compare
to PostGIS?</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Hi Peter,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">I don't think anyone is
going to be turned off by your fairly low-key mention of providing
consulting services. Many (most?) projects have a link to consulting
services available. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">You'll hit a challenge
though when someone else from the community also provides services and
would like to have an equal playing field with you. But that's easily
handled by having a directory of service providers, GeoServer
commercial support page is a good example in my opinion:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Commercial+Support">http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Commercial+Support</a></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Having rasdaman.com makes a
pretty clear cut between the FOSS project .org site and the additional
services you are offering up. And does suggest that "control" of the
.org is not == to the .com at some level anyway.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Unless you start having
flashing banner ads for the .com on the .org site I doubt you'll be
offending anyone :)</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Tyler</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">p.s. I don't think you'll
have any opposition to GPL during the incubation process either.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Tyler Mitchell</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Executive Director, OSGeo</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tmitchell@osgeo.org">tmitchell@osgeo.org</a></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">+1-250-303-1831</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">See you at <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://2011.foss4g.org"><span
style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 87, 174);">FOSS4 2011</span></a>
Denver in September!</p>
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Dr. Peter Baumann
- Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
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mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:p.baumann@jacobs-university.de">p.baumann@jacobs-university.de</a>
tel: +49-421-200-3178, fax: +49-421-200-493178
- Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 147737)
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.rasdaman.com">www.rasdaman.com</a>, mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:baumann@rasdaman.com">baumann@rasdaman.com</a>
tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile: +49-173-5837882
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