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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>My quick 2 cents : I felt it weird too, and bring an
unconfortable feeling. (It doesnt question the capacity to
organize a great event thought)</p>
<p>Have a lovely day all<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks for bringing it up Andrew J, it hasn't sat
especially well with me either. It was a great event, but it
seemed incongruous to have a vendor selling ArcGIS at a booth at
a FOSS4G.
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<div>Hi Andrew,<br>
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<div>Good on you for speaking up about your concerns! I'm
sure you're not the only one who had this thought.</div>
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<div>Speaking from myself here, as far as I'm aware anyone
can support the conference financially through
sponsorship without any other requirements, but it would
be up to the organising committee and board if they did
want to add additional conditions for accepting
sponsors.<br>
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<div>However given ESRI's involvement with OpenStreetMap (<a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Esri"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Esri</a>),
in particular their "Esri World Imagery" which they
provide to OpenStreetMap for tracing features, and their
OpenStreetMap powered basemaps which help make it easier
for people to consume OpenStreetMap data. I would say
they are very much a positive part of the OpenStreetMap
community and with FOSS4G SotM Oceania being a State of
the Map conference the more financial support we have
from entities who want to help OpenStreetMap the
stronger OSGeo Oceania and the conference will be.<br>
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<div>Andrew Harvey<br>
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<div>On Wed, 20 Nov 2024, at 10:07 PM, Andrew Jeffrey via
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<div>Hi All,<br>
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<div>I hope everyone that was able to attend the
FOSS4G SOTM Oceania Hobart conference had a great
time. I'm still very much bummed that I wasn't able
to make it down there and my only start at the OO
conference remains Melbourne in 2018. I plan on
improving my numbers as best I can into the future,
but from the outside looking in, it looked like all
those that attended had a blast - well done
conference committee and OO board.<br>
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<div>I am writing to the list because I have a
question that has been bugging me ever since I
talked to a colleague who attended the event. That
question is "What's the deal with ESRI being
a sponsor?". I have genuine curiosity when it comes
to the decision process in having them on board. I
understand these things take money to put on and the
conference needs to turn a profit, a healthy
conference makes for a healthy OO which allows the
organisation to do many of the great things that
they do. However, I think this sponsorship from ESRI
should be reconsidered in the future.<br>
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<div>Just to be clear, I am not opposed to speakers
who work for ESRI coming and talking, from all
reports the keynote from Kate Fickas was amazing (as
were all the keynotes from what I hear) and these
are the industry people that we all crave to hear
from - top job in landing that line up! But as for
sponsorship I feel that ESRI is putting their brand
on a community that a lot of us turned to when
looking for refuge from them.<br>
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<div>I acknowledge that my opinion on this is biased
as a QGIS advocate and trainer. But something about
this just feels off! I don't see what's in it for
the FOSS4G community having ESRI involved in our
conferences, to me it looks more of a cheap way for
them to buy some good news without doing anything to
improve the relationship with the FOSS4G community. <br>
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<div>However, I know I wasn't there, and I could be
wrong about the whole thing. Maybe the overwhelming
opinion is that it's a good thing and this is a step
in the right direction? I would be interested in
hearing what people think and even hearing from
someone on the conference organising committee that
has more knowledge about this. Is this something the
conference would do again? Is there a limit to their
involvement? What would have happened if they were a
platinum sponsor and got the primary logo
placement + verbal mention at opening and closing of
the event?<br>
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<div>Thanks<br>
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<div>Andrew<br>
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