[Board] Marketing/sponsors/...

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks Yves and Jo.  Just for the record: although the email that
spurred this discussion was related to OL development, I think this
applies to any/all OSGeo Projects; so I don't want to only focus on OL
users.

-jeff




On 13-01-03 12:25 PM, Jo Cook wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> What about the Ordnance Survey in the UK? They use OpenLayers as part of
> their "OpenSpace" mapping API
> (http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/web-services/os-openspace/api/index.html)
> so in theory are probably contributing to OL2 if not OL3. Arnulf might
> have a better idea about this, in his new role with them.
> 
> Jo
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Yves Jacolin <yjacolin at free.fr
> <mailto:yjacolin at free.fr>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello Jeff,
> 
>     Thanks sharing this, this is indeed important as we want to do the
>     same here
>     in France: find support from official and governmental organism.
> 
>     I will try to find some examples in my side.
> 
>     Y.
> 
> 
>     Le jeudi 3 janvier 2013 12:14:18 Jeff McKenna a écrit :
>     > Hello Board and community,
>     >
>     > I did debate which mailing list to send this to
>     > (board/discuss/marketing), but let's start here.
>     >
>     > I received a message from one of the OSGeo-Japan leaders (Hayashi-san)
>     > pointing to an important recent blog entry from another OSGeo-Japan
>     > leader (Mori-san, CEO of Orkney):
>     > http://blog.goo.ne.jp/jg2tkh/e/b4e04c4da1f141c66f48b3bd5142c733
>     >
>     > I will try my best to summarize:
>     >
>     > - Orkney is a long-time contributor and sponsor for FOSS4G projects
>     > - Mori-san is concerned that only his company is willing to contribute
>     > to OpenLayers3 ("OL3") development in Japan, even though many
>     > organizations will use OL3
>     > - a large federal org (Geospatial Information Authority, GSI, of
>     Japan)
>     > uses OpenLayers2 , but is so far not committed to helping OL3
>     development
>     > - Hayashi-san thinks sharing examples of other
>     organizations/governments
>     > who support FOSS4G/OSGeo Projects will help OSGeo-JP attract
>     > contributions from local orgs like GSI
>     >
>     > Do we have such a page to point to?  (yes this is a marketing issue)
>     > e.g. case studies of organizations helping OSGeo Projects grow
>     >
>     > (note that this is needed on my own website, so I don't pretend to be
>     > the marketing expert, but I do realize it is SUPER important)
>     >
>     > Thoughts?
>     >
>     > -jeff
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
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