I am not sure we need the endorsement of others to be taken as serious - we are being taken serious because we are serious :)<br><br>We are also fun, motivated, and out to win.<br><br>But our “win” includes everyone :)<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 11:59 AM Hans Gregers Hedegaard Petersen <<a href="mailto:gregers@septima.dk">gregers@septima.dk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">+1 to Jodys point of view.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Having big industry sponsor an event or codecamp, could also be seen as labelling our conferences and software as serious. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div dir="auto">Best regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Greg</div></div><div><div dir="auto"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>søn. 25. feb. 2018 kl. 19.45 skrev Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">OSGeo is an advocate for open source and encourage all organizations to contribute.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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). </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Empowering everyone with open source requires a big heart!</div></div></blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_1118552479521095114gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><font color="#888888"><b>Hans Gregers Hedegaard Petersen<br></b><div>Partner, Seniorkonsulent</div><div><a href="mailto:gregers@septima.dk" target="_blank">gregers@septima.dk</a></div><div>
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