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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to quantify the economic impact of OSGeo
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Last year I did a very odd software estimate for a client. The short story is
I'm adding Open Source GIS Software to their
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Newcomb, Doug wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Vaclav Petras wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Suchith Anand
>> wrote:
>> I don't know about their calculation but here is mine:
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>> If I provide service for $100 per customer and I give the s
Yes, but $1000 looks much better as a press release :-)
Doug
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Vaclav Petras wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Suchith Anand <
> suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> For example, reading through
>> http://news.aag.org/2015/05/aag-seeks-proposal-auth
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Suchith Anand <
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> For example, reading through
> http://news.aag.org/2015/05/aag-seeks-proposal-authors-reviewers-for-new-ap-course-in-gist/
> i understand that "In 2014, Esri announced a $1 billion gift of
> cloud-based ArcGI
Regarding metrics, I try to check into this for the OSGeo community
about once a month; and oddly enough, yesterday I spent effort on
updating our community statistics (recorded at
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/VisibilityStats).
But it is not easy.
And much more can be done.
So my point is that
Last year I did a very odd software estimate for a client. The short
story is I'm adding Open Source GIS Software to their ESRI Commercial
setup. In one scenario we decided to remove All the commercial software
and go with Open Source. We ended up through multiple phone calls
decided that they
Suchith,
I am guessing that the 1 billion dollar number is for full commercial price
with no volume or educational discounts for the ArcGIS Online services. If
you want to make a similar claim for the OSGeo Academy simply multiply the
full retail commercial cost ( plus maintenance) , without volum
Hi all,
Few years ago, myself and colleagues here did a study to help us understand
the social history of collaborative activities within the OSGeo ecosystem. The
results were published as a research paper on "Mapping Collaboration in Open
Source Geospatial Ecosystem" in Transactions in GIS (
