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[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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The "OL3 funding group" (for lack of a better name) did a really good
job of promoting OL3 development and sponsorship, maybe they can
include Japanese reps into their activities and share results. Added
in CC for further follow-ups.

There is really good support for OL3 from SwissTopo, OSGB and I
believe also IGN France (in the order of 350k+) but not sure how
official all of this is, so cannot really say much else. The best
place to learn more about the OL3 sponsorship activities so far is
that group with reps from terrestris, OpenGeo and camptocamp.

Cheers,
Arnulf

On 03.01.2013 17:25, 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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