[Qgis-psc] Fwd: Now Offering QGIS Support

[Andreas Neumann]

hm - I don't know if this is really satisfactory and useful for our users.

I am more in line with Nyalls proposal that we should do a more structured
table where we list about the services offered by a company.

A company that we don't know and asks to be added: there we should probably
ask the local community about their opinion. In the case of the german
company that asks to be listed - they had been recommended by the german
user group and the company is also a member and supporter of the german
user group. Just I, personally, don't know them. I don think this should be
an exclusion criteria for being listed on the commercial support provider
list.

Sorry for being a pain here. But I think it deserves a more thorough
discussion rather than just saying we don't list them.

Andreas

On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 08:01, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I believe we should be more strict. Listing unknown companies will appear
> as an endorsement, and can do is more harm than good.
> Perhaps we could add a sentence like "Many more companies offer QGIS
> support, probably also in your country. Search the web for a list."
> Cheers.
>
> Il 28 marzo 2019 07:46:39 CET, Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> ha
> scritto:
>>
>> 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>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 780.464.4658
>>>
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>>
>>
> --
> Sorry for being short
>


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Andreas Neumann
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