<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Sorry a few typos slipped in, corrections below:<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><font class="">Proposal: As a matter of policy when deploying software tools to manage the <a href="http://qgis.org/" class="">QGIS.org</a> project, we should consider licensing, functionality, convenience, effort, cost, time, available volunteers, security, privacy, how much effort is required to maintain the solution. Given two solutions that appear satisfactory with regards to these requirements, one being FOSS and one being proprietary, we should of make use of the FOSS solution in preference to the proprietary solution.</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div>Proposal: As a matter of policy when deploying software tools to manage the <a href="http://QGIS.org" class="">QGIS.org</a> project, we should consider licensing, functionality, convenience, effort, cost, time, available volunteers, security, privacy and how much effort is required to maintain the solution. Given two solutions that appear satisfactory with regards to these requirements, one being FOSS and one being proprietary, we will make use of the FOSS solution in preference to the proprietary solution.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Tim</div><br class=""><div class="">
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