Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-20 Thread Andrea Aime
Ian Turton ha scritto: One of my students was asking today about the open source development process (with special reference to geospatial projects). One question I'm left with is are there any OSGEO developers who are doing this just for the fun and fame? I know that a lot of us have fun

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-20 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 08:10:13AM +0200, Andrea Aime wrote: Ian Turton ha scritto: One of my students was asking today about the open source development process (with special reference to geospatial projects). One question I'm left with is are there any OSGEO developers who are doing this

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-20 Thread miblon
I am selfemployed since january 2007. In the years 2008 and 2009 I spent a lot of time on OpenStreetMap. Developing small tools such as the mod_osm for joomla, the poi-editor and some minor fixes here and there, and mapped large parts of the Island of Aruba. I still spend about 6 hours a week

[OSGeo-Discuss] Survey on Web Geo-Spatial Open-Source Technologies

2010-04-20 Thread Gavin McArdle
[Sorry for cross-posting] Hi everybody, I am part of the Spatial Information Systems Group in University College Dublin. We are conducting a survey on Open-Source technologies with particular focus on Geo-Spatial projects. Our first goal is to collect first-hand knowledge about a number

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-20 Thread Yves Moisan
Le 2010-04-19 23:44, Christopher Schmidt a écrit : On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 06:00:45PM -0400, Ian Turton wrote: One of my students was asking today about the open source development process (with special reference to geospatial projects). One question I'm left with is are there any OSGEO

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-20 Thread Yves Moisan
Le 2010-04-19 19:51, Stefan Steiniger a écrit : I think we (OpenJUMP) have a couple of people that are working (i.e. sending emails and improving code) on the weekends (and evenings) for fun. This includes not only developers but also people that update documentation and test new functions.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-20 Thread Mark Lucas
I think that most of the developers that actively contribute to the OSSIM project are funded through government contracts. Having said that, most all of them contribute well beyond the time they are paid for. Often that is to move the baseline towards capabilities that are not covered by

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
Mark Lucas wrote: I think that most of the developers that actively contribute to the OSSIM project are funded through government contracts. Having said that, most all of them contribute well beyond the time they are paid for. Often that is to move the baseline towards capabilities that are

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-20 Thread Chris Puttick
- Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: I can't think of any successful (wide adoption, long-term sustainability) open source projects that are pure labors of love. Well, maybe Bacula? Vague geospatial connection in that it is primarily developed by one of the founders of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-20 Thread Arne Kepp
Miles Fidelman wrote: Mark Lucas wrote: I think that most of the developers that actively contribute to the OSSIM project are funded through government contracts. Having said that, most all of them contribute well beyond the time they are paid for. Often that is to move the baseline towards

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-20 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Chris Puttick chris.putt...@thehumanjourney.net wrote: - Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: I can't think of any successful (wide adoption, long-term sustainability) open source projects that are pure labors of love. Well, maybe Bacula?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-20 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Ian Turton wrote: One of my students was asking today about the open source development process (with special reference to geospatial projects). One question I'm left with is are there any OSGEO developers who are doing this just for the fun and fame? I know that a lot of us have fun

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

2010-04-20 Thread George Silva
Your employer is a nice guy! I don't have time or incentive from my employers for such things, which is not cool. But i manage to get a few hours every week. George 2010/4/20 Mateusz Loskot mate...@loskot.net Ian Turton wrote: One of my students was asking today about the open source