Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers

2009-08-31 Thread Ravi
for vector GIS. Ravi Kumar --- On Sat, 22/8/09, Daniel Ames amesd...@isu.edu wrote: From: Daniel Ames amesd...@isu.edu Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers To: OSGeo Discussions discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Saturday, 22 August, 2009, 10:24 AM Landon, et al. I'm aware

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers

2009-08-25 Thread Jody Garnett
Evening Landon: As you have gathered from the responses thus far that lurkers are actually the larger part of the user community - and do not really represent an opportunity to acquire new developers for your project. The point is that they are part of the user community; and are

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers

2009-08-25 Thread Landon Blake
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers Evening Landon: As you have gathered from the responses thus far that lurkers are actually the larger part of the user community - and do not really represent an opportunity to acquire new developers for your project. The point

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers

2009-08-22 Thread Dave Patton
On 2009/08/21 11:55 AM, Landon Blake wrote: I would like to get some comments on a phenomenon I have discovered among the OpenJUMP community. I know for sure of one (1) company that maintains a separate fork of OpenJUMP, but which monitors our mailing list and likely grabs patches form our

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers

2009-08-21 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:55:30AM -0700, Landon Blake wrote: Is OpenJUMP the only community with these open source lurkers? No. How many of these companies do you think there are? (I'm not talking about one guy who downloads an open source app and uses it. I'm talking about actual

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers

2009-08-21 Thread Landon Blake
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:55:30AM -0700, Landon Blake wrote: Is OpenJUMP the only community with these open source lurkers? No. How many of these companies do you think there are? (I'm not talking about one guy who downloads an open source app

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers

2009-08-21 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Landon Blake wrote: What do you think? Send an e-mail to the project list with an invitation to contact me privately about getting more involved? Are these lurkers worth the time? I would write a post on my blog: *** Wow! This is a fantastic news! I've just been told that the big company X

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers

2009-08-21 Thread Landon Blake
...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mateusz Loskot Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 1:49 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers Landon Blake wrote: What do you think? Send an e-mail to the project list with an invitation to contact me privately about getting more involved

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers

2009-08-21 Thread Bill Thoen
I've been a moderator for a commercial desktop mapping forum for more than 10 years and this behavior is quite common. I think it has more to do with how people adapt to a social network than it has to do with anything unique in the Open Source world. Like Chris mentioned, the majority of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Lurkers

2009-08-21 Thread Abhay
Hi Landon, What I feel it is also part of Me-too effect when such a event happens. for eg. If a person from X company is using any of the Open Source Intiative. His/Her collegue from their own or some other division/company find out they start there own endavour to get to it without any