[Ica-osgeo-labs] Website feedback

[Siki Zoltan]

Hi Venka,

you are right.

Thanks,
Zoltan

On Sat, 29 Aug 2015, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:

> Hi Zoltan,
>
> On 8/29/2015 4:00 PM, Siki Zoltan wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I would add a 5th reason.
>> 
>> Reason #5: In scientific researches black boxes (commercial software) are 
>> not so useful. One have to know all the details of the used algorithms 
>> (source code) to make the right conclusions, change an algoritm (source 
>> code) to get new experiences. it can be done only with open source 
>> software.
> Good point.
> However, I would refrain from using the term "commercial" and suggest using 
> "proprietary" or "closed"
> instead. Commerce can be done with FOSS4G stack and the more commerce using 
> FOSS4G,
> the more job opportunities for students, developers and trainers.
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>> 
>> Universities and Geo4All labs are research centers, too.
>> I hope you understand my point, may be my text have to be edited.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Zoltan
>> 
>> On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Charles Schweik wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Suchith, all
>>> 
>>> Patrick Hogan made some helpful edits to the text I have on my lab's site
>>> (thanks Patrick!), and I then edited it a little more toward some possible
>>> useful language for the 'Why universities should join' text. I'm sure 
>>> there
>>> are other points to be made, but its a start. The text is attached.
>>> 
>>> Suchith, not sure who is leading the update to the GeoForAll page on this
>>> topic...
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Charlie
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Jeff McKenna 
>>> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On twitter just now a community leader made a comment that our website (
>>>> http://www.geoforall.org) doesn't clearly point out the benefits for a
>>>> university.  We outline "How to Join" (
>>>> http://www.geoforall.org/how_to_join/), but not really "Why to Join".
>>>> 
>>>> I thought this was a good point, and now that we all understand it more,
>>>> it might be good to highlight this on the site.
>>>> 
>>>> -jeff
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Charlie Schweik
>>> 
>>> Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>>> Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
>>> Administration
>>> 
>>> Personal website: http://people.umass.edu/cschweik
>>> Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/
>>> 
>>> Author, Internet Success: A Study of Open Source Software (MIT Press, 
>>> 2012)
>>> - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545
>>> 
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>>> A: http://five.sentenc.es
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