Frank Warmerdam ha scritto:
Certainly all of the above tend to apply to many people contributing
to OSGeo projects. Certainly the bulk of my work on GDAL, and MapServer
is client funded. I know that most of the contributors to GDAL and
MapServer have at least some of their time funded.
On Nov 17, 2009, at 4:51 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:
Frank Warmerdam ha scritto:
Certainly all of the above tend to apply to many people contributing
to OSGeo projects. Certainly the bulk of my work on GDAL, and
MapServer
is client funded. I know that most of the contributors to GDAL and
[mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andrea Aime
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:51 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo barriers to entry
Frank Warmerdam ha scritto:
Certainly all of the above tend to apply to many people contributing
to OSGeo projects
Landon Blake ha scritto:
Andrea,
You wrote: This tells me the project has lots of contributors, lots of
people that have a stake on it, a big enough user base that the
possibility of funding is no more a pipe dream but a solid reality.
Such a project by its very nature will tend to attract more
Tyler Mitchell wrote:
Thanks for the discussion Landon. I'll leave Pandora well enough
alone :)
By the way, Debian has a well established female user base:
http://women.debian.org/
Best regards,
--
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
Tyler,
Perhaps this 'issue' is not so big after all...
A comment that was made to me by a colleague after FOSS4G-2009 was that she
thought that it was great to see such a high percentage of attendees were
female; dramatically higher than she would have traditionally seen at a
spatial /
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Tyler Mitchell wrote:
Perhaps we can turn the thread to discussing what are the real or
perceived barriers people, in general, find to getting involved with
OSGeo. I'm sure that any barriers women would have might also affect
others, so it might be useful to broaden
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Bruce Bannerman ha scritto:
Tyler,
Perhaps this 'issue' is not so big after all...
A comment that was made to me by a colleague after FOSS4G-2009 was that she
thought that it was great to see such a high percentage of attendees were
female;
