[Board] Marketing/sponsors/...

[Cameron Shorter]

Jeff,
We have been collecting OSGeo case studies here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies

It would be great to get an OpenLayers funding drive case study added. 
Process for adding a case study is here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Case_Studies#Why_write_a_Case_Study.3F

On 4/01/2013 5:23 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
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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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