[OSGeo-Discuss] are there any unpaid developers?

George Silva georger.silva at gmail.com
Tue Apr 20 16:06:54 PDT 2010


Your employer is a nice guy!

I don't have time or incentive from my employers for such things, which is
not cool. But i manage to get a few hours every week.

George

2010/4/20 Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net>

> 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.
>
> Originally, I started doing it to gain knowledge and real-work experience
> as well as for great fun. After a year or two it became my occupation. A
> year ago, I moved back to volunteering in my free time, still for
> education, experience and fun. My employer also gives me chances to
> contribute to some of FOSS4G projects in my work time.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Mateusz Loskot
> http://mateusz.loskot.net
>
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George R. C. Silva

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