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<p>On 7/5/17 2:30 pm, Jody Garnett wrote:<br>
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<div>On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 8:04 PM Cameron Shorter <<a
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<p>* The person/organisation who benefits from a case
study is mostly different to the person/organisation
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<div>Can you expand on this sentence, I feel it is at the crux
of your concern/experience and may provide the context for
why OSGeo would have difficulty handling case studies.</div>
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The best time to write a case study is after a project completes,
when everyone involved is still around and can remember what
happened. However, the project the case study is being written about
rarely benefits from the case study (as the project is already
complete, and there is not budget allocated for it).<br>
You don't know who will be reading the case study and what they will
be looking for.<br>
Will they be looking for validation that another company like
themselves (research, medical, utility, government, ...) uses this
technology?<br>
Will they be interested in the open source story, open standards
story, one application, stack of applications, business case,
technical case, ...?<br>
If OSGeo is building up a stack of reference case studies, how are
you going to ensure consistent quality (which should be a
requirement). This typically requires editorial review from a person
(or team) against a set of standards. This is a long term time
consuming commitment.<br>
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Cameron Shorter
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