<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" 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><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Feb 2017, at 12:06, Ian Mayo <<a href="mailto:ian@planetmayo.com" class="">ian@planetmayo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-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" class="">jocook@astuntechnology.com</a>><br class="">To: <a href="mailto:uk@lists.osgeo.org" 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" class="">CAF9hD96x3Ljn8KfqeF-8YHwnFzCfu_e9gpmCKUC__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="">_______________________________________________<br class="">UK mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:UK@lists.osgeo.org" class="">UK@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/uk</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>