[OSGeo-Discuss] FW: Can you help spread work to any FOSS developers you know

[Arnie Shore]

Boy, have you hit a hot button of mine!

But I think the research could profitably veer off a bit.  Like there's only
one federal Department of X, but shift the focus to local government
agencies and things chang radically.  Like there's like 4500 counties - not
to mention towns - and they're ALL DOING THE SAME KIND OF APPLICATIONS.  And
they're ALL HURTING FOR $$$.

That shd be a prime target, but I've seen virtually zero interest in FOSS
stuff so far in that world, and, in truth, there really is a support
problem.

Case in point is our work in developing a F/OSS Computer-Assisted Dispatch
application: ( See http://groups.google.com/group/open-source-cad as well as
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openises/  )

The bulk of interest in our CAD package has come largely from the HAM
world, those folks oriented to supporting emergency comm's during crisis
conditions.  Surprisingly (to me, anyway) little from the career response
shops like EMS.

But wait, there's more ... !

AS


On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Tyler Mitchell <tylermitchell at shaw.ca>wrote:

> FYI - a FOSS-related survey for a research project.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> -----original message------
>> From: Felicia Sullivan <felicia at oc-tech.org>
>> Date: Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:00 PM
>> Subject: Can you help spread work to any FOSS developers you know
>>
>>
>> Perhaps some of you can help spread the word:
>>
>> For wide distribution
>>
>> I'm a PhD student in public policy at UMass Boston doing research on
>> what motivates members of free and open source software communities.
>>
>> I'm looking at ways that public policy could increase the quantity and
>> quality of contributions to free software and open source software
>> (defined as projects with an approved open source license -
>> http://opensource.org/).
>>
>> I have a professor that says if I can provide some convincing data on
>> how to best support free and open source software, he thinks he can
>> get the ideas on President Obama's desk. I am conducting a survey -
>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=SA1BorCQ_2b9E6NSE_2bNCKavw_3d_3d
>> and I need over 500 responses by May 1st in order to answer my key
>> research questions.
>>
>> One lucky respondent will have $100 donated to the FOSS project of their
>> choice.
>>
>> Questions about this survey can be directed to me at
>> felicia.sullivan at umb.edu. Thanks for your input.
>>
>> Acknowledgement
>>
>> I want to thank my FOSS developer go-to-guys -- Dan MacNeil, Peter
>> Bull, Stéphane Alnet, and Bill de la Vega -- for providing critical
>> feedback on this survey.
>>
>> --
>> _______________
>>
>> |  Technology and training to advance and sustain social change  |
>>
>> Felicia M. Sullivan
>> Organizers’ Collaborative
>> felicia at oc-tech.org
>> http://organizerscollaborative.org
>> 617.848.9513 [ voice / fax ]
>>
>> Gtalk/Jabber:  felicia.oc at gmail.com
>> AIM:  forge66
>> Skype;  forge66
>> Linkedin:  http://www.linkedin.com/in/feliciasullivan
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