[SAC] [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo sponsors ?

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On 10/14/2015 03:07 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:

Are there no more sponsors for OSGeo, or is the sponsors page broken ?
http://www.osgeo.org/sponsors

If you ask google, it gives big visibility to AutoDesk as a sponsor:
https://www.google.it/search?q=osgeo+sponsors
Taking you to a page (hosted by osgeo) with many links back to proprietary
software solutions (all links seem broken right now).

Is there a policy defined about which outgoing links are or aren't
accepted on the OSGeo website ?

--strk;

To clarify, part of the confusion appears to be that if you google
search: osgeo sponsors

The site links presented by google include 3 results under osgeo.org,
one of which is to http://www.osgeo.org/sponsors/autodesk

No other sponsor appears to get their own subpage on osgeo.org (only
links). Since it doesn't appear that Autodesk is a current sponsor
(someone feel free to correct me), and all sponsors should get similar
treatment, I have disabled the page in question from public viewing.
Hopefully it will vanish from google at some point.

Do we have a google analytics account? If so we have some control over
these sitelinks.
http://www.relishtraymedia.com/blog/bid/257788/SEO-Sitelinks-How-to-Get-Google-Subheadings-in-Search-Results

Forwarding to SAC to look into generating a more useful sitemap.xml and
tinkering with Sitelinks.

Thanks,
Alex

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I actually deleted this page, before I saw this message.

-jeff

On 2015-10-14 12:26 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:

On 10/14/2015 03:07 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:

Are there no more sponsors for OSGeo, or is the sponsors page broken ?
http://www.osgeo.org/sponsors

If you ask google, it gives big visibility to AutoDesk as a sponsor:
https://www.google.it/search?q=osgeo+sponsors
Taking you to a page (hosted by osgeo) with many links back to proprietary
software solutions (all links seem broken right now).

Is there a policy defined about which outgoing links are or aren't
accepted on the OSGeo website ?

--strk;

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On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:36:43PM -0300, Jeff McKenna wrote:

I actually deleted this page, before I saw this message.

The /sponsors page, you mean ? Was it a recent error ?

--strk;

On 2015-10-14 12:26 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
>On 10/14/2015 03:07 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
>>Are there no more sponsors for OSGeo, or is the sponsors page broken ?
>>Sponsors Archive - OSGeo
>>
>>If you ask google, it gives big visibility to AutoDesk as a sponsor:
>>osgeo sponsors - Google Search
>>Taking you to a page (hosted by osgeo) with many links back to proprietary
>>software solutions (all links seem broken right now).
>>
>>Is there a policy defined about which outgoing links are or aren't
>>accepted on the OSGeo website ?
>>
>>--strk;

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I deleted the problem page now: http://www.osgeo.org/sponsors/autodesk

It is gone.

/sponsors still needs to be updated, and I have requested this from the treasurer/Mike.

-jeff

On 2015-10-14 12:45 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:36:43PM -0300, Jeff McKenna wrote:

I actually deleted this page, before I saw this message.

The /sponsors page, you mean ? Was it a recent error ?

--strk;

On 2015-10-14 12:26 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:

On 10/14/2015 03:07 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:

Are there no more sponsors for OSGeo, or is the sponsors page broken ?
http://www.osgeo.org/sponsors

If you ask google, it gives big visibility to AutoDesk as a sponsor:
https://www.google.it/search?q=osgeo+sponsors
Taking you to a page (hosted by osgeo) with many links back to proprietary
software solutions (all links seem broken right now).

Is there a policy defined about which outgoing links are or aren't
accepted on the OSGeo website ?

--strk;