[Gfoss] Last chance before cancelling: OSGeoHacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Hi Miguel,
No, the event is not yet closed. In fact, there's renewed interest  
after my previous email :-)

So to all: If the event will be on, it will be in the week of 16-20  
June since that has most people confirmed until now. I will remove the  
other options.
Don't hesitate to still sign up quickly.

Cheers,
Jeroen

On Feb 13, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Miguel Montesinos wrote:

> I agree with "there are tons of companies which are *exploiting* the  
> GFOSS world itself, without giving anything or very little in return"
>
> But I disagree with
>
>> There are also other companies that strongly believe that an OS
>> developer should ask for less money than any other non OS
>> developers, or no money at all, because "he does that for the
>> community".
>
> Maybe people not working with OS may think that, but I think that  
> people with some experience with OS thinks the opposite way. You  
> need to have high-skilled abilities to understand core products in  
> order to being able to adapt them, and that implies >= money than  
> just using closed APIs.
>
> Jeroen, is the event definitely closed? Two collegues from  
> Prodevelop wanted to assist, but they haven´t signed in the wiki.
>
> Miguel
>
>
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Simone
>> Giannecchini
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:24 AM
>> To: cavallini at faunalia.it; OSGeo Discussions
>> Cc: gfoss
>> Subject: Re: [Gfoss] [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Last chance before
>> cancelling: OSGeoHacking event in a monastry near Bolsena (Italy)!?
>>
>>> From my limited experience I can say that the number of GFOSS
>> developers is not small, not at all; the problem is that GFOSS
>> developers usually are quiet because they spend all the time
>> they have coding GFOSS software hence talking about what they
>> do is often considered a waste time (I am not supporting this
>> statement but that's what I have heard often..). I guess that,
>> to some extent, this is true for *any* software developer...
>>
>> IMHO, the limiting factor of the GFOSS is that there are tons
>> of companies which are *exploiting* the GFOSS world itself,
>> without giving anything or very little in return (IMHO saying
>> "we use GFOSS software so we support it" is not the best form
>> of support, but then again, it's a personal opinion). There
>> are also other companies that strongly believe that an OS
>> developer should ask for less money than any other non OS
>> developers, or no money at all, because "he does that for the
>> community".
>>
>> I think that the ongoing discussion on Service Provider
>> Prioritization should try to address these issues somehow.
>>
>> Simone.
>>
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2008 6:31 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>  
>> wrote:
>>> Simone Giannecchini ha scritto:
>>>> Could you please explain what you mean to a "poor" OS developer?
>>>
>>> My feeling is that the number of available developers is small, and
>>> cannot be easily raised by reasonable amounts of money (ok, with 12
>>> MEUR that's different...). I think there's an "availability
>> pit": you
>>> can find some productive developers willing to work for free/limited
>>> additional resources/based on their own resources, you can also find
>>> (many?) productive developers if you have lots of money, but in the
>>> middle there is a gap, so transition is not smooth.
>>> It would be nice to model all this in a more formal way (I'm a
>>> behavioural ecologist, after all...), but now these are just
>> thoughts,
>>> less than hypotheses.
>>> All the best.
>>>
>>> pc
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>>
>>
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