Specifically ways to encourage new developers to take part in existing projects
- you are correct that it is a form of out reach.
You will also notice that the code sprints have been a very successful
undertaking, indeed one of the best ways we know of to encourage collaboration.
I am sure
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Jody Garnett wrote:
If I can put in 2 cents for something that seems to have been missed:
supporting open source development.
I know developers are mostly self motivating; but just like target
areas devoted to use it would be good to see some
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Simon Cropper wrote:
Tyler,
On 13/05/11 05:30, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
Even from this perspective it shows a very strong support for the
academic idea, with Government in second. Then Open Standards and
Open Data.
It would be interesting to
Good Thinking Arnulf:
As indicated this is the basic challenge of open source; how to keep patches
coming in, reviewed and applied to the codebase.
I can see a lot of coding going on inside different organisations but
the solutions never find their way back into the core software because
of a
Tyler,
On 13/05/11 05:30, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
Even from this perspective it shows a very strong support for the academic
idea, with Government in second. Then Open Standards and Open Data.
It would be interesting to get a summary of the participant background.
was their more academic
On 2011-05-12, at 3:53 PM, Simon Cropper wrote:
It would be interesting to get a summary of the participant background. was
their more academic respondents resulting in a bias? I wonder what the chart
would look like if you extracted the broad OSGeo groups (academics,
government,
Are you thinking more like looking for ways to encourage new developers or to
specifically funding new development?
I've always had the sense that, organisationally speaking, it's harder to do
specific things like that since OSGeo doesn't really get involved in the
development side of the
