[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo barriers to entry

[Andrea Aime]

Landon Blake ha scritto:
> Andrea,
> 
> You wrote: "This tells me the project has lots of contributors, lots of
> people that have a stake on it, a big enough user base that the
> possibility of funding is no more a pipe dream but a solid reality.
> Such a project by its very nature will tend to attract more people that
> can find funding to work on the project itself."
> 
> I'm curious about how we get a project to the point you describe. That
> seems to be an even greater challenge.

If there was a recipe we would not see that many failed open source 
projects ;-)

However someone wrote a book to help:
http://producingoss.com/

Mind, the book will save people from obvious mistakes, and our course
you need technical talent too, but past that, imho  the personalities of
the people involved (treating a project as a pile of code instead as a
group of people is another common mistake imho), dedication, good timing
and even just luck are really playing the difference between success and 
failure.

Cheers
Andrea

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Andrea Aime
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