[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGL internship project - Study of collaboration networks in Open Source GIS

[Alex Borrell]

Maybe this link will help you:
http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2010/uploads/intro_FOSS.pdf


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> One of the internship projects at the Open Source Geospatial Lab at Centre
> for Geospatial Science aims to look into the links between the various open
> source GIS projects in the OSGeo umbrella to help us understand the
> connections between the various communities, developers, users etc. We are
> aiming to produce an academic paper with the results. Jianhua Shao is the
> internship student who will lead this project. Myself, George Kuk, Jeremy
> Morley ,Tyler Mitchell will also be involved in this project.
>
> Title: Study of collaboration networks in Open Source GIS
>
> Abstract:
>
> Over the last few years there has been tremendous increase in the growth
> and maturity of Open Source geospatial software. The Open Source Geospatial
> Foundation (OSGeo) has been instrumental in bringing together the various
> open source geospatial communities and help sustain this growth. As part of
> this project we aim to look into the linkages between various open source
> GIS projects, communities, developers, users etc  with the aim to better
> understand the open source geospatial ecosystem. We will collect data such
> as maillist, svn commits, issue tracker etc for doing the analysis and
> building the model. The results of the work will be published as a paper.
>
>
>
> We greatly welcoming input and suggestions on the best methods for this
> before 5th March. Is there any previous literature or examples  of any
> studies  done before in this area? If so, please let us know. Please contact
> Jianhua for any information needed on this.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
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