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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 13 Feb 2017, at 15:59, Jo Cook <<a href="mailto:jocook@astuntechnology.com" class="">jocook@astuntechnology.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hi Steven,<br class=""><br class=""></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 class=""><br class=""></div>Jo<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Steven Feldman <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">I don’t think OSGeo:UK can or should specifically market QGIS vs other desktop GIS.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Feb 2017, at 12:06, Ian Mayo <<a href="mailto:ian@planetmayo.com" target="_blank" class="">ian@planetmayo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_7961533276708003256Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Message: 1<br class="">Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:54:56 +0000<br class="">From: Jo Cook <<a href="mailto:jocook@astuntechnology.com" target="_blank" class="">jocook@astuntechnology.com</a>><br class="">To: <a href="mailto:uk@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" class="">uk@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">Subject: [OSGeo-UK] How to spend some money<br class="">Message-ID:<br class=""> <<a href="mailto:CAF9hD96x3Ljn8KfqeF-8YHwnFzCfu_e9gpmCKUC__fQLA0jQkQ@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">CAF9hD96x3Ljn8KfqeF-<wbr class="">8YHwnFzCfu_e9gpmCKUC__<wbr class="">fQLA0jQkQ@mail.gmail.com</a>><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br class=""><br class="">Hello UK Chapter folk,<br class=""><br class="">Let us know what you think, or even let us know of other options- we'd be<br class="">happy to contribute to other projects but need a clear funding mechanism to<br class="">do it.<br class="">...<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">The capability gap the between O/S & Commercial toolkits is shrinking.<br class="">But, I'm pretty sure the marketing gap is large & growing.<br class=""><br class="">How about funding the development of a professional quality QGis<br class="">marketing pack, targeting UK councils/public bodies.<br class=""><br class="">The pack could contain examples of how frequent geospatial<br class="">challenges/tasks are performed with QGis, together with case studies<br class="">of QGis/Open Source adoption and testimonials.<br class=""><br class="">The materials would be Open Source, and customisable to suit the<br class="">opportunity at hand.<br class=""><br class="">No, sadly I don't hold the skills to be a candidate for the work.<br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class="">Ian<br class="">______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="">UK mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:UK@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" class="">UK@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/uk" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr class="">mailman/listinfo/uk</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></div><br class="">______________________________<wbr class="">_________________<br class="">
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