Reposted from the GDAL mailing list, because i thought it would be of interest here too.
See page 5, "Aspects of the Social Organization and Trajectory of the R Project". http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2009-2/RJournal_2009-2.pdf In particular I found this interesting: "Many open-source projects, such as the Linux operating system, have strongly hierarchical structures, and some, such as Perl, revolve around a central individual. . . . Although I haven’t formally surveyed the many existing open source projects, the R Project is apparently unusual in its flat formal organization of independent volunteers. This structure has attracted a remarkably talented and competent group of individuals, but, as I will argue later in this aper, it poses challenges for moving the R Project forward." -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere Xenon AlphaPixel.com PixelSense Landsat processing now available! http://www.alphapixel.com/demos/ "There is no Truth. There is only Perception. To Perceive is to Exist." - Xen _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
