<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Greg</div><div>I agree with your sentiments.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 08:34, Greg Troxel <<a href="mailto:gdt@lexort.com">gdt@lexort.com</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">Emma Hain <<a href="mailto:emma@north-road.com" target="_blank">emma@north-road.com</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
> Hi All<br>
> Just helping Pankajeshwara<br>
> <<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pankajeshwara/?originalSubdomain=nz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/pankajeshwara/?originalSubdomain=nz</a>>here as we<br>
> have had connections within the FOSS4G Oceania community and he presented<br>
> <<a href="https://youtu.be/7Yx3liBvb14?si=OietOxgxDVyba5dz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/7Yx3liBvb14?si=OietOxgxDVyba5dz</a>>at our regional<br>
> conference last year.<br>
><br>
> He is trying to make this plugin the best that he can. From my<br>
> understanding, he has developed this concept from the basis of protecting<br>
> Indigenous data through trust to increase sovereignty and has a strong<br>
> background in OSS.<br>
> Pankaj I believe currently works on his own having finished his tenure as a<br>
> research fellow at University of Auckland. Here is his github: sharmapn<br>
> <<a href="https://github.com/sharmapn" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/sharmapn</a>><br>
><br>
> Can the community assist if you feel this is not the forum for his<br>
> questions, guide him elsewhere or in other methods - e.g. would you say<br>
> that perhaps for him  to target a possible discipline or user group rather<br>
> than this email list?<br>
<br>
Thanks for the info.<br>
<br>
I think the key question is whether this is an individual working on<br>
open source code, or some kind of company effort with a monetization<br>
plan.  If the latter, then it should be transparently described and<br>
people working on behalf of a company should post from a company domain<br>
and identify themselves as such.<br>
<br>
That's really all I was getting at; it was a post from gmail, with we,<br>
and buzzwordy description, so it just didn't seem like it was not<br>
corporate and it wasn't labeled either.  Explaining the situation is<br>
very easy and should take less time than it took to write your email and<br>
mine combined.  Unless people aren't authorized to speak plainly of<br>
course.<br>
<br>
(I don't mean so say that anything a company does is bad either.)<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin-bottom:20px;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Emma Hain — Product Manager/Senior GIS Analyst<br>
<a href="mailto:emma@north-road.com" style="color:rgb(78,141,175);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">emma@north-road.com</a> <br></div>

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