[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo community Maxed out?

Venkatesh Raghavan raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp
Thu Oct 26 16:47:50 PDT 2006


Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> 
> On 26-Oct-06, at 4:30 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> 
>> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>> Sounds like classic open source to me... lots of people making noise 
>>> about the big picture and strategy and a very small number beavering 
>>> away at getting things done.  I don't know any magic solution for 
>>> turning talkers into doers (maybe that's because I'm a talker :)
>>
>> One magical solution that I know off is sponsorship, funding,
>> compensation for time and energy. Seems I'm in the
>> talker category too :)
> 
> Ha! For talkers you are pretty active!

Paul is hyper-active for a talker!
Cannot imagine that I can do all the
great work that he has been doing
(PostGIS etc. etc..):)

Venka
> 
> It is well known that in volunteer organisations, 10% of the people do 
> 90% of the work, not always a good way around that.  This just means we 
> need to make the 100% = more volunteers, so the 10% is bigger too :)
> 
> Tyler




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