Paul, Multi-million dollar companies are sadly very illogical and dysfunctional I wouldn't even waste my breath on them. The only way to get money from them is the promise of embarassment if they don't comply.
Come up with a fail-proof embarassment strategy and you'll have more money than you know what to do with :). -----Original Message----- From: postgis-users-boun...@postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-users-boun...@postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 4:56 PM To: PostGIS Users Discussion Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Seeking Funding for Faster PostGIS Indexes Our problem isn't our ability to milk $50 donations from our impoverished user community, it's multi-million dollar companies for whom a $10K contract is almost two small to draft free-riding on on the community. Honestly, this is not a crowd-sourcing problem. I'm asking folks who might have access to said larger chunks of money to contact me, no strings attached, and if there's an appetite I will send add them to the distribution list for the statement of work and they can decide if they want to shop the project up to their superiors. Yes, it's a long ways away, but waiting a year won't make it any closer. It'll always take 12-18 months from inception to deliver of numbered release. P. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Paragon Corporation <l...@pcorp.us> wrote: > Eli, > > Yes we've made a lot of progress. We are in the code provenance phase > and then I think we are pretty much done. > > Paul, > I think part of the problem like I mentioned is we really got to make > it easier for people to give money to the PostGIS project. > > To me that means: > > Being able to support micro-donations > Getting our incubation act together so our funding can fall under the > OSGEO umbrella and people that need a non-profit tax umbrella of some > sort can use that . > As strk suggested better outlining of these tasks and realistic effort > invovled to execute. > > For this particular case -- I think the gains are just too far down > the horizon to really appreciate -- I know a year or a half doesn't > seem like much but it seems like eons to many. > Of course for this particular case -- this could be funneled thru the > PostgreSQL non-profits since its not a PostGIS only benefit. > > Just some guesses. > > Thanks, > Regina > http://www.postgis.us > > > -----Original Message----- > From: postgis-users-boun...@postgis.refractions.net > [mailto:postgis-users-boun...@postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of > Eli Adam > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 4:46 PM > To: PostGIS Users Discussion > Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Seeking Funding for Faster PostGIS > Indexes > > Any progress since the end of last year when I asked about the option > to contribute to PostGIS through OSGeo? > > Thanks, Eli > >>>> On 6/9/2011 at 1:20 PM, in message > <BANLkTi=KyjUJgFFdJ14AHNt=jP6=bjw...@mail.gmail.com>, Paul Ramsey > <pram...@opengeo.org> wrote: >> This is a once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity to make your PostGIS an >> order of magnitude faster... I'm surprised there has been so little >> response! >> >> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Paul Ramsey <pram...@opengeo.org> wrote: >>> One of the eye-opening talks of PgCon last week was the presentation >>> from Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev on their work on spatial >>> partitioning indexes in PostgreSQL. Oleg and Teodor are the >>> maintainers of the GiST framework we use for our r-tree, and are >>> proposing a new framework to allow quad-tree and kd-tree >>> implementations in PostgreSQL. >>> >>> http://www.pgcon.org/2011/schedule/events/309.en.html >>> >>> The upshot is, this new approach is as much as 6-times faster than >>> the r-tree (at least for points). If you're interested in seeing >>> PostGIS indexes get vastly faster, consider funding this project. >>> Get in touch with me directly for details. >>> >>> http://blog.opengeo.org/2011/05/27/pgcon-notes-3/ >>> >>> P. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> postgis-users mailing list >> postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net >> http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
