Hi Skukender, On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Sukender <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep... Now at least we have numbers on your thoughs! :)
Yes numbers are invaluable, be them encouraging or discouraging, it helps answer the how much resources one should put into looking into various ventures. It also helps you understand the nature of the beast better, an open source/free software community is such an amorphous entity, we have little hot spots of knowledge about it but mostly we know very little about who, what, where, how much... On the topic of worth... I recently came across a link to mywebsiteworth, and it suggests openscenegraph.org is worth $2,832! http://www.mywebsiteworth.com/site/openscenegraph.org A little different than the project cost according ohloh - $5,547,964 https://www.ohloh.net/p/osg Wooho a defict of $5,545,132 :-) Looking it at another way, we have 359 contributors, so the average contribution is $15,455. The vast majority of contributors are just a minor bug and typo fixes, so minority that have contributed the majority of the code will have given us code of much greater value. While this figures are just made up, with no actual monetary value to the code, it does give us a hint about that it's far easier to get code contributions than monetary ones, many hundreds of times easier in fact. Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
