[Board] Some food for thought from Directions magazine ahead of our board meeting

[Peter Batty]

I don't know if any of you have listened to this podcast from Adena and Joe
at Directions magazine, with their predictions for 2012:

http://www.directionsmag.com/podcasts/podcast-predictions-for-the-geospatial-marketplace-2012/219405

They talk about open source starting at around 13:30. The interesting thing
is that they predict that OpenGeo will "become the go to company for
information about open source tools ... it doesn't seem like OSGeo, which
had been that leader before, is taking on that role."

Now I don't always agree with Joe and Adena, and I've told them that on
occasion :), but they are widely listened to in the broader geospatial
world, and their views are probably representative of a lot of folks in
that space. And I can see where they're coming from to some extent - part
of it probably relates to letting Tyler go, and part of it I think is that
(IMO) we are not doing enough to get the word out about open source to the
broader geospatial community (which of course will be a topic of
conversation in Seattle). I might try to connect with Joe and/or Adena
before we meet to talk more about their perspectives (in particular Joe
said he was disappointed in FOSS4G - I suspect that he felt it was too
technical with not enough content for newcomers, and in that regard it's a
shame he didn't attend the newcomer day which I think he would have got
more out of, but it would be interesting to chat in more detail about his
thoughts).

I plan to write more on my thoughts about our strategy etc before Seattle,
and encourage others to do the same, but thought this was worth sharing
just as an input to the thought process.

Cheers,
    Peter.
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