FYI - a FOSS-related survey for a research project.
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From: Felicia Sullivan feli...@oc-tech.org
Date: Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Subject: Can you help spread work to any FOSS developers you know
Perhaps some of you can help spread the word:
Boy, have you hit a hot button of mine!
But I think the research could profitably veer off a bit. Like there's only
one federal Department of X, but shift the focus to local government
agencies and things chang radically. Like there's like 4500 counties - not
to mention towns - and they're ALL
One thing I've noticed that has even got me into rather heated
discussions about F/OSS geo software is .. how to put this delicately?
Basically, most technical people are lousy at communicating
requirements and demonstrating capabilities to end-users decision
makers.
The F/OSS geo
