omizations, always according to each product success/dissemination.
Duarte
De: Robert Hollingsworth [mailto:r...@prodigy.net]
Enviada: segunda-feira, 6 de Junho de 2011 20:33
Para: OSGeo Discussions
Assunto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds
forOSGeoprojects?
There mig
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, not-for-
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
PostGIS Raster seems to be doing pooled funding here:
http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/WKTRaster/PlanningAndFunding
I don't know how well the effort has been promoted and publicized, I just
learned about it from a recent email on the PostGIS list:
http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgi
