[Qgis-user] Survey on desktop based geoprivacy plugin

[Emma Hain]

Hi Greg
I agree with your sentiments.


On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 08:34, Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

> Emma Hain <emma at north-road.com> writes:
>
> > Hi All
> > Just helping Pankajeshwara
> > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/pankajeshwara/?originalSubdomain=nz>here
> as we
> > have had connections within the FOSS4G Oceania community and he presented
> > <https://youtu.be/7Yx3liBvb14?si=OietOxgxDVyba5dz>at our regional
> > conference last year.
> >
> > He is trying to make this plugin the best that he can. From my
> > understanding, he has developed this concept from the basis of protecting
> > Indigenous data through trust to increase sovereignty and has a strong
> > background in OSS.
> > Pankaj I believe currently works on his own having finished his tenure
> as a
> > research fellow at University of Auckland. Here is his github: sharmapn
> > <https://github.com/sharmapn>
> >
> > Can the community assist if you feel this is not the forum for his
> > questions, guide him elsewhere or in other methods - e.g. would you say
> > that perhaps for him  to target a possible discipline or user group
> rather
> > than this email list?
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> I think the key question is whether this is an individual working on
> open source code, or some kind of company effort with a monetization
> plan.  If the latter, then it should be transparently described and
> people working on behalf of a company should post from a company domain
> and identify themselves as such.
>
> That's really all I was getting at; it was a post from gmail, with we,
> and buzzwordy description, so it just didn't seem like it was not
> corporate and it wasn't labeled either.  Explaining the situation is
> very easy and should take less time than it took to write your email and
> mine combined.  Unless people aren't authorized to speak plainly of
> course.
>
> (I don't mean so say that anything a company does is bad either.)
>
>
>

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