Hi Folks,
Following on the call earlier this week, I wondered
if it might be helpful to start putting together a
list of existing open source geospatial technologies
that prospective members are currently leveraging (or
planning to) as a critical component of their
products/services? This and a list of technology gaps
that organizations feel could be filled with open
source components, and that they might be interested
in supporting.
In case of business sensitivities, this could
potentially be done anonymously through Andrew.
Essentially - Andrew could get feedback from each
prospective organization that would get rolled up into
an anonymous and public table/summary posted on the
IWG website.
I would see something like the following:
Technology | Existing | Leveraging /
Interested
GDAL | YES |
6
MapServer | YES | 2
GeoCoding | NO | 4
This would give us a few things:
1. Identify what technologies business has a
significant existing dependency on. This would allow
us to drill down on any shortcomings in these
technologies (features, stability, performance,
predictable development process, IP concerns,
standards compliance, etc... ) that this group could
look to collectively address.
2. Identify potential areas of new development -
obviously this would give us some areas to focus our
attention as well.
3. Help to focus our discussions into very tangible
activities - which would help us all sell ourselves
and our organizations on the value of Eclipse
membership.
4. Help Andrew to sell this concept to other
prospective members.
Thoughts?
Dave
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