[OSGeo-Discuss] scale of FOSS projects

[Andy Turner]

> At the moment, I can't think of any "really successful open source
projects" that didn't have their origins with "a network of
partly-funded enthusiast contributors" where the originator didn't have
some form of organizational home and/or a funding stream for the first
few releases of the software.

> Now, if anybody has a good example of a more grass roots project that
has survived - please, some examples would be a great contribution to
this discussion.

It has gone through some major changes, but GeoTools might fit into the
surviver without initial funding class of OSS and it's FOSS4G too :-)

Best wishes,

Andy
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