[OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal for the listing of projects in our new web site

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Jachym,

Yes I agree, it is a slippery slope that once we/OSGeo decide that size 
is an important part of our organization (as you know, many other 
organizations separate their membership by size), it opens up so many 
other challenges.  For that reason, I spoke up here to suggest that we 
avoid all that, by suggesting 4 options to cover that.

Indeed my proposal does include all organizations, purposely.  OSGeo is 
built on that, and has done an amazing job in creating a thriving 
community.

Thanks for listening Jachym,

-jeff



On 2017-08-21 6:17 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> Hi Jeff (all)
> 
> currently, the page is listing "service providers"  - it's project 
> oriented (as providing services to projects)
> 
> your proposal is shifting it little bit to "all organisations", not even 
> service providing - but what is their releationship to the (osgeo) 
> projects? - still, it would be fine to me
> 
> I would be +1 for it, if it's does not hit to some other principle, 
> already hardcoded in the page (e.g. 
> http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/initiatives/geo-for-all/ is partly 
> coreving the Academic/Research topic - just an example of potencial 
> conflict, which we could oversee)
> 
> I do not know, just noting, I have no strong opinion - I want to be 
> inclusive, all for adding another categories, but the rules and 
> principals should be clear. Currently, how I understand it "you can be 
> listed as long as you are providing services to projects"
> 
> J
> 
> út 22. 8. 2017 v 0:11 odesílatel Jeff McKenna 
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> 
> napsal:
> 
>     On 2017-08-21 5:11 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>      > For your page
>      > http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/service-providers/opengeolabs/ Is
>     that a
>      > single consultant (you!) or a company?
>      > (or perhaps it is just a company with one person in it)
>      >
> 
>     Hi Jody,
> 
>     Regarding separating the OSGeo community by size, I suggest that we
>     avoid offending our community members, so let's stay positive and make
>     the following change:
> 
>     I recommend that we/OSGeo change the "Organization Type" section to
>     contain the following 4 options:
> 
>        1. Private
>        2. Academic/Research
>        3. Public/Government
>        4. Non-profit
> 
>     The same 4 options should be applied to the options in the "Filter"
>     search on the site for "Service Provider Type".
> 
>     Thanks.
> 
>     Jachym: you did a great job on the OpenGeoLabs page, and thanks for
>     supporting OSGeo all of these years :)
> 
> 
>     -jeff
> 
> 
> 
>     --
>     Jeff McKenna
>     President Emeritus, OSGeo Foundation
>     http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna
> 
>