[Qgis-psc] Fwd: Now Offering QGIS Support

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

I just got a very similar request about being added to the commercial
support providers, from a german company I never heard about.

I guess we will get more such requests over time.

I don't know what to reply and would like to get some guidance, in order to
treat such requests equally.

Personally, I think, it would be good to list such companies. There is
still this notion that there is a lack of support companies (at least in
some regions or countries) for QGIS. If we could point to such a list where
in every country there are some support providers, such false claims (lack
of support) can be countered.

However, I agree with all of you, that there should be a clear distinction
to what a company does for QGIS (core contributor, contributor, sustaining
member, etc.) For the last one, we already have a list.

Should we tell companies who want to be added to QGIS, that we want to have
some sort of contribution to the project first? E.g. contributing to the
project (coding, translating, documentation, etc.) or becoming a sustaining
member before we would list them?

It would also feel strange, to list companies that no-one in the community
knows - who knows what their expertise around QGIS really is?

The whole discussion is a bit similar to the discussion about training
certificates. We need some sort of reviewing process, before we add such a
company to our list of commercial support providers. Or at least get the
recommendation from a local QGIS user group.

Thoughts?

Greetings,
Andreas

On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 22:36, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
wrote:

>
> FYI
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:        Now Offering QGIS Support
> Date:   Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:17:50 +0000
> From:   John Perozok <john.perozok at munisight.com>
> To:     richard at qgis.org <richard at qgis.org>
>
>
>
> Hello there,
>
>
>
> My name is John Perozok, and I work for MuniSight, a small GIS company
> that works with small urban and rural Canadian municipalities. We are
> very excited to now be supporting QGIS and would like to be included on
> this list:
> https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/commercial_support.html. How can
> we go about doing this?
>
>
>
> For reference here is our recent blog post announcing QGIS support:
> https://www.munisight.com/single-post/MuniSight-now-supports-QGIS.
>
>
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you.
>
>
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> *John Perozok*
> Marketing Coordinator
> MuniSight Ltd.
>
> Main: 1.855.898.6864
>
>
>
> E-mail: john.perozok at munisight.com <mailto:john.perozok at munisight.com>
>
>
>
> Website:  www.munisight.com <http://www.munisight.com>
>
> Support: Support at munisight.com <mailto:Support at munisight.com>
>
>
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> 780.464.4658
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