[Osia-members] Presentation on open source, and good morals = good business

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the feedback. Comments inline.


On 27/11/2016 10:32 AM, Daniel Jitnah wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
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> Many thanks for sharing this with us.  This is a great presentation 
> and covers some of the core issues in a simple and easy to understand 
> way.  Admittedly, being already committed the cause it would be easy 
> for me to understand and agree with the core proposition you made!.
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> My question to you would be the following:
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> Who was in the audience (ie: who exactly from the geospatial industry? 
> Scientist/IT, Managers ?) and how did they react?  Did you get any 
> valuable feedback? Questions from the audience?
The audience were surveyors and geospatial practitioners (people who use 
software to draw maps and analyse map related data), along with managers.
Not too many programmers in the audience.
Hence the weighting of the presentation on "should I USE open source or 
not"?
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> Do you think there is an opportunity here for further interaction 
> between the geospatial industry and the Open Source sector (business 
> and community) that can arise from this event. 
There is already established open source applications and user interest 
in Open Source.
I've been invited to give a similar presentation to another event.
I'll be continuing to promote Open Source in the geospatial sector.
> And how can OSIA assist?
Thanks for the offer of OSIA assistance. I don't see any need for direct 
assistance at the moment, but it adds legitimacy to the Open Source 
story for OSIA to be in existence and to be a channel for negotiating 
with government.

Providing reviews of presentations like this is also valuable. And 
hopefully there are ideas in my presentation that others can adapt for 
your own industry presentations.

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> Do others on this list have similar experience in a different field 
> they would like to share?
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> I myself gave a presentation to the Young Accountant network with a 
> similar content and slant but geared towards the accounting/finance.
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> Cheers
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> On 27/11/16 08:01, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Hi all,
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>> I presented recently on open source (to people in the geospatial 
>> industry) and explained some of the principles about how open source 
>> works in business.
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>> If motivated, I'd be interested to hear feedback:
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>> http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/the-elusive-open-business.html 
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