[Board] Some food for thought from Directions magazine ahead of our board meeting

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg at flaxen.com> wrote:
> Nicolas wrote:
>> Would OSGeo just be the same today without OpenGeo's numerous code
>> contributions and sponsorships ?
>
> I’m not sure I follow this… My answer to your question would be “of course
> not”: employees of OpenGeo have written a lot of good code and have done a
> lot of market education about open source.  But the same argument could be
> made for the MapServer gang, which doesn’t have a single corporate entity
> behind it.

... and also for the other OSGeo projects - most of them are unrelated to
OpenGeo, see:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Project_Stats

Markus