[mapguide-users] Project Sponsorship

[Trevor Wekel]

I completely agree with Andy.

There are a number of areas where support and sponsorship will make a significant difference to MapGuide Open Source - Maestro development, Performance and stability improvements for open source providers like GDAL, Enhancements and bug fixes for Fusion, Builds/testing/code review infrastructure, etc.

The Project Sponsorship RFC is out for review http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc83.  Any questions or comments, for example sign me up for $X, are welcome.

Sorry for the shameless plug...
Trevor

-----Original Message-----
From: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andy Morsell
Sent: September 17, 2009 10:57 AM
To: 'MapGuide Users Mail List'
Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] web studio help!

Yes, I really disliked that sales strategy since I was often recommending to
my MapGuide Open Source customers that they buy Autodesk Studio.  That
approach by customers was probably one of the primary reasons for Autodesk's
rationale and they also needed some way to further separate MapGuide
Enterprise from MapGuide Open Source - so I get it from that standpoint even
though it sucks for us in some ways.

Kenneth has done an amazing job with Maestro, however, and I think the
community should continue to support him in any way possible with the future
development and enhancement of that package.

Andy


-----Original Message-----
From: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jonio, Dennis
(Aviation)
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 9:22 AM
To: MapGuide Users Mail List
Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] web studio help!

We were very, very disappointed in Autodesk once again. A little-strong arm
if you ask me. Especially for those of us who had Studio from the get-go.
Maybe we should all work on cloning a few Kenneth Skovhedes'?  ;-)

r,
dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andy Morsell

That's an interesting view of paying thousands of dollars when you only want
a license of Autodesk Studio to work with MapGuide Open Source......

I would rather see Autodesk make Studio available as a stand-alone product
again at a reasonable IDE price and then have people contribute any
remaining money directly to the MapGuide Open Source project.  That way we
KNOW those funds will be used for that project and that project only.

Andy Morsell, P.E.
Spatial Integrators, Inc.
47° 46' N 116° 49' W
www.SpatialGIS.com

-----Original Message-----
From: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Zac Spitzer

Studio is available for MGOS, you just need to take out a subscription for
mapguide enterprise which bundles studio, which is in effect sponsoring
the bulk of the mapguide / fdo project developers and plus gets you
access to autodesk support...

z

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