[gdal-dev] Adding a "Commercial support" section on gdal.org ?

[Tamas Szekeres]

Even,

I suspect most companies providing commercial support for GDAL are related
to one or more committers, so it might be reasonable to let the committers
to propose a company to be listed (by describing the support they can
provide) and probably call for a vote on it. (just my 2 cents)

Best regards,

Tamas



2014-08-20 22:02 GMT+02:00 Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if there would be a concensus and interest to add a
> "Commercial
> support" section on gdal.org. A number of OSGeo projects have such page
> (see
> [1]), so that wouldn't be completely awkward to have one for GDAL as well.
>
> The OSGeo Service provider database reference 137 companies/individuals
> that
> have registered themselves as providing GDAL support ([2]) ! Pretty cool,
> but
> I'm wondering how a user not familiar with the project could effectively
> use
> that list to identify core contributors from casual advanced users.
>
> If we agree for adding a "Commercial support" section, the question is : on
> which criteria do we accept an organization/individual to be listed in the
> section ? We would want them to be as most objective and non debatable as
> possible.
> A simple criterion could be anyone who has commit rights (in trunk, not
> just
> in a sandbox or customer branch). There are currently 56 SVN committers.
> That
> could be strengthened with a minimum number of commits/lines changed
> during a
> period, but we perhaps don't need that level of complexity.
> We could possibly also extend that to entities that provide public support
> to
> users through gdal-dev or other public forums (gis.stackexchange, others?).
> Other suggestions ?
>
> Should we distinguish several categories of actors ?
> - QGIS makes a division between "Core contributors" vs "Contributors".
> GeoServer has "Core contributors", "Experienced providers" and "Additional
> services" (the last one is populated on service provider request).
> - On the other side, deegree, Geomoose or Geotools simply list them in a
> single section.
> The answer likely depends on the number of organizations that would be
> listed
> (I guess below 10 we don't need much structure). The difficulty here would
> be to
> establish the categories and criteria.
>
> So, could entities interested in being listed reply to this email so we can
> have a better idea of how many would be listed, and if we need more
> stricter
> criteria or several categories ?
> As far as I'm concerned, Spatialys would be interested.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Even
>
> [1] Non exhaustive list of OSGeo projects with a commercial support
> section :
> http://geoserver.org/support/
> http://www.geomoose.org/info/commercial_support.html
> http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/support.html
> http://wiki.deegree.org/deegreeWiki/GettingSupport
> http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/commercial_support.html
>
> [2] OSGeo Service Provider catalog with entities declaring GDAL expertise :
> http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile?SET=1&MUL_TECH[]=00013
>
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