[Board] Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Fwd: Preliminary Survey Results

[Tyler Mitchell]

On 2011-09-23, at 11:45 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:

> Il giorno gio, 22/09/2011 alle 19.01 -0600, Peter Batty ha scritto: 
>> 
>> A few things I'd highlight:
> 
>> 67% of attendees were at their first FOSS4G
>> 46% answered 5 to the question how heavily do you currently use
>> geospatial open source, remainder split fairly evenly between 1-4.
>> 61% were software developers as main job function, 18% end users, 20%
>> managers
> 
> Hi Pete.
> Your stats confirm a point that makes me unhappy since long:
> - many FOSS4G participants are GFOSS devs
> - OSGeo gets much of its resources from FOSS4G
> - this means OSGeo is actually drawing resources from developers
> - I would prefer an organization that helps developers, getting
> resources from what they are (i.e. the business side of our world).

Hi Paolo,

I'm not sure you can make that tight of a connection between
the developers who attend and FOSS4G being a drain on them. 
Is that what you mean?  Businesses are likely also sending 
their employees so that they can be helped and return with
greater business options.  Maybe I'm misunderstanding the point, let
me if I am :)

Tyler