[OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs

[Ravi Kumar]

GFOSS.. Commercial Support.. +1 for this.
But.. now that this has come to a boil..

WHY NOT THE BOARD AND WOULD BE BOARD COME OUT CLEAR ON THIS..
SURE THIS WILL HELP THE CHARTER.. WHOM TO VOTE..
'Free and Open Source'.. has brought to where we are.. This is a community
effort.

Is there a solution to OSGeo FOSS4G events, that are affordable to
Users/Developers/Students..

Ravi Kumar



On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Tom Chadwin <tom.chadwin at nnpa.org.uk>
wrote:

> Hello all
>
> A significant group who have possibly not yet chimed in on this issue are
> the commercial organizations who sell GFOSS support and development. I
> presume that FOSS4G is one of their best opportunities to get new business.
>
> I know there have been recent discussions/disagreements on this list about
> how far OSGeo should promote commercial organizations. However, these
> companies are the crucial element in GFOSS adoption in many larger public-
> and private-sector bodies. Many simply will not entertain GFOSS without
> commercial support, many believe the old myth that open source means no
> support, and many simply will not accept the risk of GFOSS without that
> support.
>
> My point is that GFOSS would not have anything like the market penetration
> it now does without commercial companies offering open-source support and
> development. As I say, I stand to be corrected, but FOSS4G surely enables
> them to persuade others to migrate to GFOSS, which is to the whole
> community's benefit.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
> PS  Please forgive enormous corporate sigfile...
>
>
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