<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Steven,<br><br></div>Some of this is a matter of terminology- I'm not sure that "market" is the right word to use. We have historically tried to collate a set of case studies, and I think this is a valid thing for the local chapter to do- but it definitely does take more time and money than we currently have available. Having said that, if there were case studies available then our website/github repository might be a good place to collect them.<br><br></div>Jo<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Steven Feldman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" target="_blank">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I don’t think OSGeo:UK can or should specifically market QGIS vs other desktop GIS.<div><br></div><div>Open Source evangelists need to articulate the holistic case for an Open GeoStack from server to desktop to web and that is a full time role rather than a piece of marketing collateral.<br><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 10 Feb 2017, at 12:06, Ian Mayo <<a href="mailto:ian@planetmayo.com" target="_blank">ian@planetmayo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_7961533276708003256Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div><blockquote type="cite">Message: 1<br>Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:54:56 +0000<br>From: Jo Cook <<a href="mailto:jocook@astuntechnology.com" target="_blank">jocook@astuntechnology.com</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:uk@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">uk@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>Subject: [OSGeo-UK] How to spend some money<br>Message-ID:<br> <<a href="mailto:CAF9hD96x3Ljn8KfqeF-8YHwnFzCfu_e9gpmCKUC__fQLA0jQkQ@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">CAF9hD96x3Ljn8KfqeF-<wbr>8YHwnFzCfu_e9gpmCKUC__<wbr>fQLA0jQkQ@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>Hello UK Chapter folk,<br><br>Let us know what you think, or even let us know of other options- we'd be<br>happy to contribute to other projects but need a clear funding mechanism to<br>do it.<br>...<br><br></blockquote><br>The capability gap the between O/S & Commercial toolkits is shrinking.<br>But, I'm pretty sure the marketing gap is large & growing.<br><br>How about funding the development of a professional quality QGis<br>marketing pack, targeting UK councils/public bodies.<br><br>The pack could contain examples of how frequent geospatial<br>challenges/tasks are performed with QGis, together with case studies<br>of QGis/Open Source adoption and testimonials.<br><br>The materials would be Open Source, and customisable to suit the<br>opportunity at hand.<br><br>No, sadly I don't hold the skills to be a candidate for the work.<br><br>Regards,<br>Ian<br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>UK mailing list<br><a href="mailto:UK@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">UK@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/uk" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/uk</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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