[Marketing] Exhibition Pack

[Cameron Shorter]

Dave,
Yes, I agree that CTOs are a key market.

Paul, Dave,
The successes I've had in the past have been selling OSGeo based 
solutions to Open Source sympathizers in the Geospatial industry. But 
these Open Source sympathizers need to be able to justify their 
selection of technology to their managers and stakeholders. So I've 
needed to provide these sympathizers with convincing arguments for Open 
Source which they can then use.

So I'd like to see OSGeo selling GeoFOSS as a creditable solution, but 
pushing case studies forward, showing strong industry backing, 
demonstrating robust applications.

Dave McIlhagga wrote:
> Well put Paul. And a much larger group of people to attract to boot ...
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On 1-Dec-08, at 5:37 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>
>> I have long thought that give the choice of
>> - promoting open source to geo people
>> and
>> - promoting geo to open source people
>> the latter was the one with the higher potential payoff, since the
>> difficult bar of "getting open source" is already surmounted with the
>> latter group.
>> P
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Dave McIlhagga
>> <dmcilhagga at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
>>> Cameron,
>>>
>>> I think one group that is critical to OSGeo's success are the CTOs or
>>> Technology Managers of software companies -- especially those 
>>> offering both
>>> software services and selling proprietary products.
>


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