Hi Chris, This doesn't answer your question, but I found this talk by Greg Kroah Hartman (one of the Linux kernel maintainers) very insightful on the profile of Linux kernel contributers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw Cheers, James Tan 2008/8/21 chris ismael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Understood, hmm now that you raise this point it does seem like a difficult > question to have an answer to. Ok thanks! > > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Harish Mallipeddi < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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! >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Slugnet mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq >>> http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Harish Mallipeddi >> http://blog.poundbang.in >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > >
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