I like the page for PostGIS Raster coordinating the roadmap and
funding/dev.time [1].
Regarding a tool/site, I haven't seen one that would personally inspire me to
donate, or help me convince my company to donate. They feel disconnected from
the project itself, and honestly they give this
Il 06/06/2011 11:28, Duarte Carreira ha scritto:
I like the page for PostGIS Raster coordinating the roadmap and
funding/dev.time [1].
Regarding a tool/site, I haven’t seen one that would personally inspire me to
donate,
or help me convince my company to donate. They feel
Paolo,
I did not know of your past efforts mailing letters. Maybe there are lessons
there that would allow us to improve the process and be more successful. Or it
is really a dead-end. I don't know for sure. But if 1 letter gave way to a
single 500€ donation it would be 45% of all funding in
Il 06/06/2011 12:24, Duarte Carreira ha scritto:
I did not know of your past efforts mailing letters. Maybe there are lessons
there
that would allow us to improve the process and be more successful. Or it is
really
a dead-end. I don't know for sure. But if 1 letter gave way to a single 500€
So the danger with any kind of bounty funding model is it misses out on:
- paying osgeo to keep the servers up and the lights on
- documentation
- quality assurance
- other maintenance activities website, release of software, check issues to
produce release notes etc...
Now I know none of the
There might be some insights if we draw parallels between these open source
funding issues and how traditional closed-source companies finance what they do.
Actually the differences between open and closed source may be more
instructive: It seems to me that open source is, essentially,
