Steve as a member of our community you should be in position describing your research, and your upcoming topic with a blog post on the osgeo website to get more response.
Reading your form I am not sure how many organizations could be in position to provide numbers. -- Jody Garnett On 6 May 2016 at 14:09, Steven Feldman <shfeld...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have wanted to try to pull together some very basic economic numbers > about open source geo for a while now. Then when I got the good news that > my talk on “There is no such thing as a free lunch” had been accepted for > FOSS4G > 2016, I decided to have a crack at crowdsourcing some numbers which I > hope to include in my talk in August. There are two elements to this > exercise > > - Supply – How big is the business of Open Source Geo? i.e the > companies and full time or near to fully time consultants working in this > space > - Usage – How much Open Source Geo software is deployed and what value > does it create or displace? > > At the moment I am focussing on the supply side because it feels like a > more manageable task, perhaps some others will step up and offer to help > estimate the usage side. > > This survey aims to gather some basic stats on companies (from one man > bands to very large companies) whose activities are based on the provision > of development and services in Open Source Geo (either wholly or a > significant part). Even though revenue and employee numbers will often be > available from public sources, I will only present the results in > aggregated formats to ensure that individual company info cannot be derived > from my presentation. If you are uncertain about providing information to > this survey please check with a senior manager within your organisation > before responding. > > So why should you help me to make an estimate of the size of the Open > Source Geo business? I think that size does matter when you are in the > software business, potential users often gain confidence from larger > numbers – more users, a larger industry with more employees and more > revenues – why would this not be the case for Open Source Geo when we are > frequently facing FUD merchants. I believe that collating some economic > data on the Open Source Geo business can help all of us to respond better > when confronted with questions about the commercial sustainability of our > community. > > There is a bit more info about the survey at > http://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/size-matters > > The survey is at > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xZaq6Z4NMOuXm6jOEifScBS6qW0FSMt47AKb3Fm6JmA/edit?usp=sharing > > Thanks for any help you can offer to further publicise this survey > > Cheers > ______ > Steven > > > > _______________________________________________ > Board mailing list > bo...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board > -- -- Jody Garnett
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