Howard Butler wrote:
On May 6, 2008, at 3:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the past i've heard it suggested that really successful open
source projects now need serious organisational backing. They can't
be built by a network of partly-funded enthusiast contributors
alone.
I think really s
As part of the GeoWeb 2008 conference, a Student Contest is being held
-- with significant cash prizes!
Deadline is next week, so get your entry in soon.
http://geowebconference.org/students-academia/contest-information
(OSGeo is a happy little cosponsor of this event, as Open Source is a
requ
Folks,
USGS runs a website for LiDAR geospatial technologies (CLICK), with an
active bulletin board and calendar of geospatial events around the
world. I found there a lot of various GIS events submitted
Perhaps it's an interesting place to spread some of FOSS GIS events too
we are involved an
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 12:03 +0200, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> Yes it does. Karl Fogel describes it very well in his book
> (http://producingoss.com). I strongly recommend it to project leaders
> and developers who maintain just-opened and want to get dirty with
> principles of the FOSS world.
One im
Schuyler Erle wrote:
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 12:03 +0200, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
Yes it does. Karl Fogel describes it very well in his book
(http://producingoss.com). I strongly recommend it to project leaders
and developers who maintain just-opened and want to get dirty with
principles of the FOS
On 5/8/08, Schuyler Erle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 12:03 +0200, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>
> > Yes it does. Karl Fogel describes it very well in his book
> > (http://producingoss.com). I strongly recommend it to project leaders
> > and developers who maintain just-opened an
P Kishor wrote:
On 5/8/08, Schuyler Erle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One important point that Fogel makes that I think is worth noting here
is that the number-one sine-qua-non of *any* potentially successful
software project is *shipping working code*.
Until a developer does that, the discuss
On May 8, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
With rare exception (there are geniuses among us), it's pretty hard
for one person to accomplish all that much, in a short amount of
time, in odd hours outside their day job. At least none of the
interesting projects I've been involved with
>
> Linus didn't write all of Linux. But he wrote enough for it to be useful.
>
> Too much philosophy, not enough code. :)
As Linus puts it: "talk is cheap..." =]
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Or, to quote the IETF, "rough consensus and running code".
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Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
Or, to quote the IETF, "rough consensus and running code".
Except that the reference is to the informal criteria for when one might
even beginning to firm up a standard. In the IETF community - unlike
pretty much every other standards body on the planet - there's a
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 21:28 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> > Or, to quote the IETF, "rough consensus and running code".
> >
> Except that the reference is to the informal criteria for when one might
> even beginning to firm up a standard. In the IETF community - unl
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