<html><head></head><body>Hi all,<br>I believe we should be more strict. Listing unknown companies will appear as an endorsement, and can do is more harm than good.<br>Perhaps we could add a sentence like "Many more companies offer QGIS support, probably also in your country. Search the web for a list."<br>Cheers.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Il 28 marzo 2019 07:46:39 CET, Andreas Neumann <andreas@qgis.org> ha scritto:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I just got a very similar request about being added to the commercial support providers, from a german company I never heard about.</div><div><br></div><div>I guess we will get more such requests over time.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I don't know what to reply and would like to get some guidance, in order to treat such requests equally.</div><div><br></div><div>Personally, I think, it would be good to list such companies. There is still this notion that there is a lack of support companies (at least in some regions or countries) for QGIS. If we could point to such a list where in every country there are some support providers, such false claims (lack of support) can be countered.</div><div><br></div><div>However, I agree with all of you, that there should be a clear distinction to what a company does for QGIS (core contributor, contributor, sustaining member, etc.) For the last one, we already have a list.</div><div><br></div><div>Should we tell companies who want to be added to QGIS, that we want to have some sort of contribution to the project first? E.g. contributing to the project (coding, translating, documentation, etc.) or becoming a sustaining member before we would list them?</div><div><br></div><div>It would also feel strange, to list companies that no-one in the community knows - who knows what their expertise around QGIS really is?</div><div><br></div><div>The whole discussion is a bit similar to the discussion about training certificates. We need some sort of reviewing process, before we add such a company to our list of commercial support providers. Or at least get the recommendation from a local QGIS user group.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>Greetings,</div><div>Andreas<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 22:36, Richard Duivenvoorde <<a href="mailto:rdmailings@duif.net">rdmailings@duif.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Subject: Now Offering QGIS Support<br>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:17:50 +0000<br>
From: John Perozok <<a href="mailto:john.perozok@munisight.com" target="_blank">john.perozok@munisight.com</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:richard@qgis.org" target="_blank">richard@qgis.org</a> <<a href="mailto:richard@qgis.org" target="_blank">richard@qgis.org</a>><br>
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Hello there,<br>
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My name is John Perozok, and I work for MuniSight, a small GIS company<br>
that works with small urban and rural Canadian municipalities. We are<br>
very excited to now be supporting QGIS and would like to be included on<br>
this list:<br>
<a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/commercial_support.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/commercial_support.html</a>. How can<br>
we go about doing this?<br>
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For reference here is our recent blog post announcing QGIS support:<br>
<a href="https://www.munisight.com/single-post/MuniSight-now-supports-QGIS" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.munisight.com/single-post/MuniSight-now-supports-QGIS</a>.<br>
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Looking forward to hearing from you.<br>
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Best,<br>
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*John Perozok*<br>
Marketing Coordinator<br>
MuniSight Ltd.<br>
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Main: 1.855.898.6864<br>
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E-mail: <a href="mailto:john.perozok@munisight.com" target="_blank">john.perozok@munisight.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:john.perozok@munisight.com" target="_blank">john.perozok@munisight.com</a>><br>
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