Notes for upcoming Spatial Community AMA with @ajturner (4/19 26 @ 11:00am PDT)
- esri is neither as big or homogenous as people sometimes guess
- we're not a monolith
- making 'open data' easier and more pervasive is a no brainer for us
- esri is 100% customer driven. some of our customers are dragging us into modernity, we're dragging others.
- its harder for us to track success of our Open Source projects than what we license
- open or closed, my own interest has always been to promote problem solving and professional development
- nerds like to philosophize, but most folks value simple (perhaps with an exit strategy) more than they inherently value FOSS.
- COTS GIS software purchases tend to account for ~10% of total software budget 1
- fulfilling individual customer requests leads to complexity sometimes
- my fundamental MO: don't be a jerk
how valuable are projects like f=geojson, esri-leaflet and terraformer?
what do these folks want to see more of?
- how is bizness?
- whats coming down the pike?
- vector tile collab progress?
- recent startups of note
- ??
dream list for backchannel support:
@williamscraigm @astauffer @patrickarlt @nixta @slibby @dmfenton @odoe