[OSGeo-Discuss] A few survey stats

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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Simon Cropper wrote:
> Tyler,
> 
> On 13/05/11 05:30, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>> Even from this perspective it shows a very strong support for the
>> academic idea, with Government in second.  Then Open Standards and
>> Open Data.
> 
> It would be interesting to get a summary of the participant background.
> was their more academic respondents resulting in a bias? I wonder what
> the chart would look like if you extracted the broad OSGeo groups
> (academics, government, developers, users) and presented the same
> charts, whether they would show academics favoured work with academics,
> government with governments, etcetera.

Tyler,
thanks for the outreach effort and surveys. Nice graph at:
http://www.osgeo.org/tyler/2011/osgeo-survey-graph2


One thing that obviously cannot come out of surveys are things that are
not being asked.

The other thing that cannot come out of surveys are the opinions of
those who are not being asked.

This makes this type of survey kind of introverted because it asks about
existing Memes inside a distinct community. This is a good excercise but
ignores the outside which might have different ideas altogether.

To me it is difficult to understand why someone now not connected with
us would want to invest into OSGeo. But I am sure that there are many
ventures to explore. The question is now how to trace and then mine them?

One things that have been on my radar for a while is that public
administrations are a prefect target for long time funding and
sponsoring. But so far we proven that we are incapable of acessing this
source of income. I guess that we need some kine of outside help to get
this done.

Best regards,
Arnulf

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