[Qgis-psc] WGIC

[Tim Sutton]

Looks like they are charging membership fees … why don’t you write to them and propose they include QGIS.ORG <http://qgis.org/> as an affiliate member (for free). I think this is definitely the kind of strategic direction QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> should be taking to take our rightful place as an industry leader….

Plus then we can have pictures of Paolo and Jack shaking hands and who knows maybe one day ESRI and QGIS will co-exist in a world where the projects are friends, sharing code, standards, and cool marketing gimmicks. We can dream right? :-)

Regards

Tim

> On 10 Sep 2018, at 09:32, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Jeff and Maria from Osgeo recently drew my attention to:
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> during the UN-GGIM Forum in New York, Jack Dangermond announced the birth of WGIC, which is a Council of industries (https://wgicouncil.org/ <https://wgicouncil.org/>) operating in the geospatial sector.  At the moment there are no FOSS4G members and the members are all giants of the geospatial world. I wonder if it could be worth your presence there or you believe that it is useless or unfeasible. My comment is that this is something that has to be discussed, independently of the result of the discussion (if being involved or not; if being involved as a single company or as a network of companies)
> 
> ===
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> whereas some QGIS-friendly companies could evaluate their individual participation to it, it might also be feasible to participate as QGIS (perhaps representing all companies involved).
> 
> Anyone interested?
> 
> All the best.
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