[Oskari-user] Interview about background and development of Oskari

[Aarnio Timo (MML)]

Hi Erik and Arnulf!

First of all, you can use Timo, as Aarnio is my last name ;)

Thank you for your comments, we're very happy to hear them!

Keeping the list CC'd is a good way to keep everyone posted and if comments arise there's an opportunity to do that as well.

Regarding your question about "in the wild" contributors, we don't have such, the contributions we get come from the Oskari community and (mostly) from organizations that are also represented in the Project Steering Committee (https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/wiki/Project-Steering-Committee).

Beginning of May suits us well, ready when you are. And hope top-posting is ok to you (I can look into Outlook options if need be..) :)

Cheers,
Timo

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Albers [mailto:eal at fsfe.org] 
Sent: 11. huhtikuuta 2018 19:18
To: Arnulf Christl (aka Seven) <seven at arnulf.us>; Aarnio Timo (MML) <timo.aarnio at maanmittauslaitos.fi>; Oskari-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Oskari-user] Interview about background and development of Oskari

Hi Aarnio, Arnulf and rest,


On 11.04.2018 10:30, Arnulf Christl (aka Seven) wrote:
> sorry that I have overridden your decision to take Erik offlist. 
> Please
> (obviously) feel free to communicate private information directly, I 
> did not mean to challenge your decision but feel that it would also be 
> valuable for the users to learn more about the FSFE initiative and activities.

well, I am not sure if the interview gives a good opportunity to get insights about the fsfe as I was expecting myself to make the questions ; )

but yes, if you think this can be interesting on-list we can keep the list in cc


> we are currently in the process of graduating Oskari as an OSGeo 
> project and also from this aspect your request is very timely. I also 
> believe that Oskari is not only a valuable project to highlight how 
> public money is well invested into software but also as an exemplary well managed Free Software project.

I honestly had the same impression and that is why I chose Oskari for the interview. I was checking some award-winners and their repositories and unfortunately, some of them are not very well maintained. Oskari however seems to be a very lively and maintained software. congrats!

btw, do you have any contributors "in the wild", I mean out of the involved institutions?


>> I work as the product owner for Oskari at the National Land Survey of 
>> Finland and I'll be happy to take part in an interview. In case there 
>> are very technical questions I can ask my colleague and Oskari 
>> architect Sami Mäkinen (cc) to take part as well.

ok, great. thank you for this opportunity.

I hope I do not disappointed you now, but I have to say that the publication of the interview might still take a while. As said, we are doing a series of interviews (six to start with) and like to publish them in an interval of two or three weeks each. We start in the beginning of May, that means our interview will most likely not be published before June, I fear. I did however contact you that early, because we also had the experience with other interview partners that they need weeks and months to get official approval for their statements.

As I am out of office the next two weeks, I would like to do the interview at the beginning of May. Is that fine on your side?



>> Let's continue the discussion via direct emails as the list is 
>> configured not to allow posts by non-members (we have to approve or 
>> discard each non-member post one by one.

as said, I am open for any method : )

Best,
   Erik

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