RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds forOSGeoprojects?

2011-06-07 Thread Duarte Carreira
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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds forOSGeoprojects?

2011-06-06 Thread Robert Hollingsworth
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-

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds forOSGeoprojects?

2011-06-06 Thread Jody Garnett
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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Are there proposed ways to raise funds forOSGeoprojects?

2011-06-05 Thread Eli Adam
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