Another thing that came up in conversation last week was - why be involved in OSGEO? After all so far it has mostly been requests for work, on some problems we were comfortable ignoring previously...
Here are some of the answers: - source of funding for the "grunt work" we have real with (releases, user docs), this is the reason I bothered to do the providence review - we need to set up ownership on our codebase, seems to just be a legal matter we can sort out via a letter from each developer - collaboration with other projects, both to cut RnD costs and to share in interoperability testing - shared marketing and branding, less exciting to us as we are a library We can see some of these results coming out meeting other communities face to face at FOSS4G, the goal will be to get the same kind of benefits out of OSGEO involvement. Jody ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
