[OSM-talk-be] Géomatique Wallonne - strategic plan

[Ben Abelshausen]

First of all Julien: thanks for all your hard work and enthusiasm in taking
on this task! :-)

I think it is pretty obvious that we would want to promote usage of
open-source as well but I think this is something that is not the task of
our community.

We can recommend using open-source tools but the argument against opening
data cannot ever be 'open-data is not possible because then we would have
to use open-source software'. I think we should be very very clear that
these two are different. An excel document with nice juicy open-data is
still a good thing.

But we can still recommend using open-source tools, we just have to be
careful about how this is done in this document.

Also: We should be careful about positioning the OSM project in Belgium as
a project that wants to collect/incorporate open-data sets. We are about
collecting data in the form of mapping the world, not about collecting
open-geo-data sets. That was an argument for me to join everything with
OKFN into one document.

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Best regards,

Ben Abelshausen
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