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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10.09.2018 10:50, Tim Sutton wrote:<br>
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      Looks like they are charging membership fees … why don’t you write
      to them and propose they include <a href="http://QGIS.ORG"
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      member (for free). I think this is definitely the kind of
      strategic direction <a href="http://QGIS.org" class=""
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      rightful place as an industry leader….
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    I was also reading up the membership structure, and was thinking the
    same as Tim, I guess the companies should decide for themselves if
    they want to be members but we definetly should try to get QGIS.org
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      <div class="">Plus then we can have pictures of Paolo and Jack
        shaking hands and who knows maybe one day ESRI and QGIS will
        co-exist in a world where the projects are friends, sharing
        code, standards, and cool marketing gimmicks. We can dream
        right? :-)<br class="">
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    I see were you are going Tim, the panel comment that ArcGIS cannot
    open QGIS projects really hit you ;)<br>
    cheers<br>
    Marco<br>
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              <div class="">On 10 Sep 2018, at 09:32, Paolo Cavallini
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                  <p class="">Hi all,</p>
                  <p class="">Jeff and Maria from Osgeo recently drew my
                    attention to:</p>
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                  <p class="">during the UN-GGIM Forum in New York, Jack
                    Dangermond announced the birth of WGIC, which is a
                    Council of industries (<a
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                    operating in the geospatial sector.  At the moment
                    there are no FOSS4G members and the members are all
                    giants of the geospatial world. I wonder if it could
                    be worth your presence there or you believe that it
                    is useless or unfeasible. My comment is that this is
                    something that has to be discussed, independently of
                    the result of the discussion (if being involved or
                    not; if being involved as a single company or as a
                    network of companies)</p>
                  <p class="">===</p>
                  <p class="">whereas some QGIS-friendly companies could
                    evaluate their individual participation to it, it
                    might also be feasible to participate as QGIS
                    (perhaps representing all companies involved).</p>
                  <p class="">Anyone interested?</p>
                  <p class="">All the best.<br class="">
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Paolo Cavallini - <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.faunalia.eu/" moz-do-not-send="true">www.faunalia.eu</a>
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