Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] How big is the Open Source Geo developer and consultancy community?

Hi Steven, Re. The Supply side - I'd suggest you include anyone who actively contributes effort to the development of OS software regardless of how they monetize the activity. For instance, if you don't include companies working on the software that then gets monetized via proprietary

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] How big is the Open Source Geo developer and consultancy community?

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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] Should OSGeo accept "benevolent dictator" projects into OSGeo?

Hi all, Very interesting discussion :) This is my opinion about general selection methods. I think it should be: 1. the most independant and impartial as much as possible 2. transparent comunication 3. based on a mathematical expression of general properties 4. the weight of these properties

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How big is the Open Source Geo developer and consultancy community?

Apologies, the link to my explanatory blog post was wrong. Should be http://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/blog/size-matters/ Steven > On 6 May 2016, at 19:09, Steven Feldman wrote: > > I have wanted to try to pull together some very basic economic numbers about > open

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Incubator] Should OSGeo accept "benevolent dictator" projects into OSGeo?

@Peter From the discussion I take away the impression that Cameron et al have tried to keep the conversation going and not close any doors. You have called that word smithing, which raises a proverbial eyebrow. The fact that you have just turned it into a take it or leave it deal, is not