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

[Jeffrey Johnson]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 01:58 Andrea Aime <andrea.aime at geo-solutions.it>
wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Polimi <maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:
>
>> 1) in my opinion the size matters and it is not in se something negative
>> to be a small startup or company instead of a big one. Anyway, as JeffJ
>> said, if somebody is alienated we can skip it. We have just to better
>> discuss this 'if'.
>>
>
> Just sharing my two cents...
>
> From a project/community standpoint one wants to put front and center the
> people, companies and
> organizations that are the lifeblood of the community, those that are
> contributing code, documentation,
> advocating and helping users. Personally I'd keep it as a primary
> classifier, failing to do so might divert
> financial resources from the parts of the community that deserve and need
> it the most.
>
> From the standpoint of an organization looking for a provider, size may
> also be important, a larger company
> typically has a better financial footing (mandatory in certain types of
> contracts), and possibly a more diversified experience
> among its ranks. Also, it might happen that the customer is looking for a
> certain experience with the provider
> (e.g, matching or getting closer to its own size, or looking for the more
> industrial vs the more "boutique"
> approach).
> So... what about reporting the size of the company among the other
> information, even if it is
> not the primary classifier? The size could be reported as classes to
> lessen the chore of maintaing such
> information (e.g, "1-5", "5-20", "20-50", "50+", just thinking out loud
> here)
>

It's easy enough to change the classes to these numbers.



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> Andrea
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