Frank Warmerdam ha scritto:
Certainly all of the above tend to apply to many people contributing
to OSGeo projects. Certainly the bulk of my work on GDAL, and MapServer
is client funded. I know that most of the contributors to GDAL and
MapServer have at least some of their time funded.
I find the underlying bias of this discussion itself fascinating. Landon is
right that surveying/engineering is male-dominated; yet nobody complains
that nursing is female-dominated. I have to wonder what really is the
problem? Money aside - what's inherently wrong with fewer women in
On Nov 17, 2009, at 4:51 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:
Frank Warmerdam ha scritto:
Certainly all of the above tend to apply to many people contributing
to OSGeo projects. Certainly the bulk of my work on GDAL, and
MapServer
is client funded. I know that most of the contributors to GDAL and
Bri wrote: I'm not saying we should raise a generation of waitresses
and receptionists because it was the lazy choice - but at the same time
we need to overcome our own bias of non-tech fields as being inherently
inferior and encourage proper valuation of all roles in society.
I agree with
Andrea,
You wrote: This tells me the project has lots of contributors, lots of
people that have a stake on it, a big enough user base that the
possibility of funding is no more a pipe dream but a solid reality.
Such a project by its very nature will tend to attract more people that
can find
Landon Blake wrote:
My main point is that we should encourage more diversity in our
professions. Software development and land surveying would benefit
from more women, and nursing would likely benefit from more men.
(Ironically, I have a good friend that is in school for nursing right
now,
Alex,
I will be in SF for the OGC TC meeting in the week before. Unfortunately
my flight back is on the 14th, I did not check back with the event
calendar (which one is that anyway?).
But I'd be interested in meeting with OSGeo folks to share some ideas
the weekend before - if anyone is around
Landon Blake ha scritto:
Andrea,
You wrote: This tells me the project has lots of contributors, lots of
people that have a stake on it, a big enough user base that the
possibility of funding is no more a pipe dream but a solid reality.
Such a project by its very nature will tend to attract more
Hi,
Perhaps this paper and software (C++) will be interesting to some of
you. It is graphs/routing research made by Timo Bingmann:
* paper
http://idlebox.net/2006/Studienarbeit/studythesis-talk-visualisation.pdf
* software
http://idlebox.net/2006/Studienarbeit/libvgserver-0.1/
* all
