[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2018 sponsorship

[Stefano Campus]

dear barry,
please help me to better understand your position.
If ESRI is "an Open Source company" as you say, if one submits a paper to
FOSS4G 2018 about an application made with ArcGIS and some tools they
publish in their github repo, will  this paper be accepted by editors and
reviewers?

I think that free and open source is not only a business vision but I think
and I believe it is a way to improve our world sharing knowledge.
When I try to explain my vision of FOSS4G to someone who doesn't know
anything about it, I also use this word: "ethics".

I don't want to convince anyone, this is not the point, but I'm just trying
to understand what are the positions of community in OSGeo and especially
the position of its governance.

best regards and ciao

stefano

2018-02-25 15:41 GMT+01:00 Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>:

> They've sponsored every FOSS4G Global since about 2010, except for 2015
> (South Korea).
>
> And why not? They are an Open Source company:
> http://www.esri.com/software/open/open-source
>
> They use a *lot* of open source software, so its good that they give back.
> It does not earn them any power over the conference organisers and nobody
> is forced to buy ArcGIS licenses.
>
> Barry
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 2:26 PM, Stefano Campus <skampus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I see ESRI is one of the sponsor of FOSS4G 2018.
>> Do the OSGeo Board and Local Committee think it is appropriate?
>> Our Romans ancestors used to say: 'Pecunia non olet' (money don't smell)
>> but sometimes...
>>
>> Thank you for your reply
>>
>> Stefano Campus
>>
>
>
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