Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] State of the Bounty?

2011-10-12 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
- Original message - > > I wonder why would anyone answer no on this. > That is easy; sometimes use of open source is a competitive advantage; > advertise the services and results (not the tools used). That too. I can imagine for some shops that small bug squashing jobs may not be worth

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] State of the Bounty?

2011-10-12 Thread Jody Garnett
> I wonder why would anyone answer no on this. That is easy; sometimes use of open source is a competitive advantage; advertise the services and results (not the tools used). Cheers, Jody ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osg

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] State of the Bounty?

2011-10-11 Thread G. Allegri
It's a rather difficult task to manage a bounty system. In my experience lot of requests are directly submitted to potential developers, but I suppose it would be a great system... if it would work. For the second point I answer the same as Sandro :) giovanni 2011/10/11 Sandro Santilli > On Mo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] State of the Bounty?

2011-10-11 Thread Sandro Santilli
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:07:08PM -0700, Tyler Mitchell wrote: > 2) If you are a service provider or developer on GFOSS/OSGeo platforms, would > you be interested in being connected to potentially paying customers (hmm, > hope you answer yes so far) that have particular requests to the base. I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] State of the Bounty?

2011-10-11 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 11/10/2011 07:07, Tyler Mitchell ha scritto: 1) What GFOSS or OSGeo projects have looked a bounty system and are either implementing it or hope to implement it. If you are offering up suggestions for "pay for this great new feature", that might apply as well. I'd love to know how you are

[OSGeo-Discuss] State of the Bounty?

2011-10-10 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Hi all, I'm regularly asked about how users or companies can request improvements to OSGeo software or to make a specific bug go away. Short of pointing people to the ~200 OSGeo Service Providers (http://osgeo.org/search_profile) and helping them get onto the right lists to ask for help... wh