Ian Turton ha scritto:
One of my students was asking today about the open source development process (with special reference to geospatial projects). One question I'm left with is are there any OSGEO developers who are doing this just for the fun and fame? I know that a lot of us have fun developing but everyone I could think of (GeoTools, GeoServer, uDig) gets paid to have that fun.
My first few years of Geotools were completely unpaid: wake up at 5, worth though the weekends, to get it to work enough for my students at the uni to use (so in a sense there was a "work" purpose, but I was barely paid just for the hours spent in the classroom and nobody pushed for them use an open source library). Today I'm paid to work on GeoTools/GeoServer, but I still put in weekends time so there is still an unpaid portion. I don't think it can really go away: paid stuff is directed by company/customer needs /plans, on the spare time you do what you feel is good/necessary/fun instead. I don't believe you can really be "involved" if you don't have that kind of passion, yes, one can just "work" in an OS project, but it's not really the same thing as real involvement. Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
