Hi Robert, Code contributions are effectivelty the best "donations" OSG have :) Just a note: mywebsiteworth.com does only rely on visits/hits. This site would better check the checkouts of the SVN repository!
Sukender PVLE - Lightweight cross-platform game engine - http://pvle.sourceforge.net/ Le Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:47:37 +0100, Robert Osfield <[email protected]> a écrit: > 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 _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
