[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 sponsorship

[Jody Garnett]

I am not sure we need the endorsement of others to be taken as serious - we
are being taken serious because we are serious :)

We are also fun, motivated, and out to win.

But our “win” includes everyone :)
On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 11:59 AM Hans Gregers Hedegaard Petersen <
gregers at septima.dk> wrote:

> +1 to Jodys point of view.
>
> If you do not want to end up preaching for the choir, then you have to
> welcome others. I would also like to urge people to consider that
> “contribution” has many facets.
>
> Having big industry sponsor an event or codecamp, could also be seen as
> labelling our conferences and software as serious.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Greg
>
>
> søn. 25. feb. 2018 kl. 19.45 skrev Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>:
>
>> OSGeo is an advocate for open source and encourage all organizations to
>> contribute.
>>
>> Personally I am happy to see ESRI participating, and have watched their
>> open source game improve with the java geometry library first being
>> released, and perhaps now accepting contributions.
>>
>> There is always work to be done and open source culture is a long game. I
>> look forward to the next steps when we can focus more on a vendor neutral
>> playground for collaboration (such as software foundations).
>>
>> I was also sad to see ESRI Europe drop out of the last day of our FOSS4G
>> Europe event, we can and should be more welcoming in keeping with our
>> vision.
>>
>> Empowering everyone with open source requires a big heart!
>>
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Jody Garnett
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