[OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

[Mark Lucas]

I think that most of the developers that actively contribute to the OSSIM project are funded through government contracts.  Having said that, most all of them contribute well beyond the time they are paid for.  Often that is to move the baseline towards capabilities that are not covered by customer requirements.  I spend most all of my time securing contracts so we can expand the team.

The core team has worked together over the last decade as the individual contributors have switched companies several times.

Mark

On Apr 19, 2010, at 11:44 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 06:00:45PM -0400, Ian Turton wrote:
>> One of my students was asking today about the open source development
>> process (with special reference to geospatial projects). One question
>> I'm left with is are there any OSGEO developers who are doing this
>> just for the fun and fame? I know that a lot of us have fun developing
>> but everyone I could think of (GeoTools, GeoServer, uDig) gets paid to
>> have that fun.
> 
> About 80% of my work on OpenLayers has been entirely unpaid and
> unsupported by anyone for the past couple years. The early days of OL
> were a MetaCarta project, and some portion of my work time is still done
> with support from my employer on open source software, but most of it is
> just me spending my own time.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Christopher Schmidt
> Web Developer
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Mark Lucas
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