[OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Open Source Users Charter

[Even Rouault]

Steven,

I'm very supportive of your thoughts and think it could be adopted as an 
official OSGeo statement. Well done.

If I can make a suggestion, perhaps the Donate picture should show banknotes 
rather than coins ;-)

Even

> A couple of months back I asked whether their was any contribution guidance
> that we offered to organisations using OSGeo software. Apart from Jody’s
> reply there wasn’t any response. I think we are missing an opportunity to
> encourage and help user organisations to contribute time and/or funding to
> OSGeo and it’s projects, so I have written this blog post
> http://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch/
> which sets out some thoughts on "Good practice for organisations using
> OSGeo software”. Hopefully it will prompt some discussion. I have posted
> on my blog as I didn’t feel that I should post something as speculative as
> this on the wiki without community endorsement, whenever people want we
> can move a version to the wiki. Feel free to comment on this mail thread
> or on the blog. ____________
> Steven Feldman
> 
> On 5 May 2014, at 04:57, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You may like to at what Arnulf has been doing towards certification.
> > Endorsing is a trickery game indeed.
> > 
> > For GeoServer we simply list organizations, noting what kind of work each
> > is known for ( but not offering an endorsement).
> > 
> > http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Commercial+Support
> > 
> > On Sunday, May 4, 2014, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Jody
> > 
> > I would like to have a document or web link to point at as the start of a
> > conversation with an organisation. It can’t be mandatory but we might
> > want to consider community endorsement of organisations which adopt the
> > charter or 'social contract'
> > 
> > I’ll start a wiki page with a few thoughts and open it up for others to
> > contribute their views ______
> > Steven
> > 
> > On 2 May 2014, at 12:14, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I think you are leaning towards the "social contract" associated with
> >> being part of a community.
> >> 
> >> For organisations that do not wish to participate, that is fine.
> >> Participation is one way of minimising the risks associated with the
> >> use of open source software, as long as they are making that decision
> >> with a decent understanding that is fine.
> >> 
> >> The way I figure it they will get burned a few times before taking
> >> interesting in participation :) But yeah if you are talking to managers
> >> speak in terms of risk and change control, not community/participation
> >> - know your audience.
> >> 
> >> I think I had a rant about the social contact last year, it produced one
> >> more tester of GeoServer - making the process of issuing release
> >> candidates suspect.

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