[OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

[Paul Ramsey]

That kind of high-touch approach will have to be left to those (like,
hopefully OpenGeo) who are building and monetizing products around the
core software. The non-profit core organization can't do that unless
it's willing to become much more vendor-like, which is something OSGeo
has repeatedly shied away from (perhaps because OSGeo has many members
who work for companies, that, like OpenGeo, are monetizing open
source).

As Alaric the Visigoth once said "Rome wasn't sacked in a day".

P.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Chris Puttick
<chris.puttick at thehumanjourney.net> wrote:

> Marketing. Branding. Lots of ferrying decision makers to shiny demo labs and glossy events and making them feel good about the product, regardless of the fact that driving sports cars around race tracks has nothing to do with the promo'd products effectiveness (although such events should provide some pointers about value for money...).