Brian Timoney
With twenty-five years in various branches of the Geospatial ecosystem such as defense, telecom, energy, and local government, Brian has accumulated a variety of opinions on map interfaces, data quality, enterprise anthropolgy, and the persistent usefulness of SQL. His writing appears at Mapbrief.com and monologues from various geo gatherings are available online as well.
Session
11-05
14:30
30min
Geospatial Open Source and Selling the Contemporary Enterprise Software Experience
Brian Timoney
What are we "selling" when offering enterprise software with open source components? Spoiler alert--it's not simply feature parity with a proprietary closed-source equivalents. How do we calibrate messaging that sells while fostering the ecosystem we care about?
The Business of Open Source
Regency Ballroom B