On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 22:16 -0200, Tim Sutton wrote: > Hi > > I think the seminal work on the open development process is 'The > Cathedral and the Bazaar' by Eric Raymond.
+1. Whilst getting a little dated, It is most certainly the most well known work in this regard. ESR has also written an interesting essay on how to ask questions (though I think it's aimed at asking in a very dev centric environment rather than a user centric environment). In a way it is in itself an interesting insight into hacker culture. In it he links to http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html which is a very useful guide to reporting bugs or issues with software. Regards, Tim Bowden > > I would second that the discussion held here represents extreme points > of view perhaps to make for a more lucid debate. In reality we as > developers do greatly care about our users, get upset when people > criticise our work, and generally have human reactions to these > things. In most case the only reward and pleasure we get from our hard > work is seeing our work 'out in the wild', being used and enjoyed by > people. > > Regarding QGIS reading your large dataset, I would suggest to ensure > you have spatial index (using option in vector layer properties > dialog) built for the dataset and use scale dependent rendering. > > Best Regards > > Tim > > 2008/1/5, Robert Coup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 06/01/2008, dnrg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If anyone can recommend a good book on the sociology > > > of open source communities, I'm all eyes. > > > > "Producing Open Source Software"[1] has some interesting stuff in it, and so > > does "Understanding Open Source Software Developement"[2]. > > > > [1] http://producingoss.com/ > > [2] > > http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=s5EwJk0tUJAC&ie=ISO-8859-1 > > > > HTH, > > > > Rob :) > > > > -- > > One Track Mind Ltd. > > PO Box 1604, Shortland St, Auckland, New Zealand > > Phone +64-9-966 0433 Fax +64-9-969 0045 > > Web http://www.onetrackmind.co.nz > > _______________________________________________ > > postgis-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
