Who is an open source developer in the first place? If it just requires
someone to author 100 lines of GPL'd code in order to call himself an open
source developer, then count me in. If it requires someone to have gotten
their patch accepted into the Linux kernel source tree, then count me out!

Seriously I find it funny when I see job ads which just say "we are seeking
exceptional open source developers" when what they actually were trying to
say is "our company has been doing .NET all this while, and recently our
mgmt has decided to cut costs by switching to opensource software and we
have no clue whom to hire".

You should maybe pick the 100 most high-profile opensource projects and see
how many significant contributions they've received from Singapore devs.
Answering this question is not as easy as coming up with no of people in
Singapore who have a Linux certification.

Cheers,
Harish

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:38 PM, chris ismael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Hi, does anyone know the figure for the number of open source developers
> here in SG?  Thanks!
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