[Benchmarking] Rebooting the Benchmarking effort

[Paul Ramsey]

Would be a good topic of discussion with your OGC counterparts, as they have a pool of sponsor contacts who are interested in advancing the state of the art. 

P. 

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Paul Ramsey
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On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:

> On 2013-09-04 12:24 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
> > 
> > This was my thinking. The more we can agree on here the better.
> > This also applies for whatever we might want to suggest to the
> > OSGeo board regarding future directions. If we really want to
> > propose some kind of sponsor driven benchmark event our proposal to
> > the board should better be good. The more convincing and thought
> > through it is the easier it will be for the board to agree.
> 
> 
> 
> I am hesitant to think the funding should come directly through the
> Board/OSGeo. I've been at the forefront of OSGeo funding proposals
> many times now, and just because the proposal is thought through
> doesn't make it possible. OSGeo revenue sources and sponsors are
> scarce. More likely possible is finding funding for this exercise as
> part of the FOSS4G conference. So our proposal could be sent to the
> OSGeo Conference Committee (heck, one can even imagine this as part of
> a future hosting RFP), as well as introduced in the benchmarking
> presentation in Nottingham.
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
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