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<span>If I can put in 2 cents for something that seems to have been missed: supporting open source development.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>I know developers are mostly self motivating; but just like "target areas" devoted to use it would be good to see some target areas devoted to "development".<br>
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<span><br>-- <br>Jody Garnett<br><br></span>
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<p style="color: #a0a0a0;">On Friday, 13 May 2011 at 5:30 AM, Tyler Mitchell wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div>View online: <a href="http://bit.ly/osgeosurvey2">http://bit.ly/osgeosurvey2</a><br>----<br><br>We just hit > 100 respondents on my recent survey! You can still chime in with your thoughts on the direction and priorities for OSGeo:<br><a href="http://bit.ly/osgeosurvey">http://bit.ly/osgeosurvey</a> <br><br>The first two questions were around priority "target areas", basically constituents/groups/areas that we should, collectively, spend more time working with e.g. Academic, business, government, etc. <br><br>The first question just asked if they were good ideas and the results were all pretty much positive - but with Academic development coming out on top with the highest number of "this is important" votes. <br><br>The second question forced voters to make a decision and rank the ideas from least to most important. Again, Academic development came out on top. I'll crunch some more stats later, but thought you might find this graph interesting. Sorry if you don't like 6 axis graphs :)<br><br>See the graph: <a href="http://bit.ly/osgeosurvey2">http://bit.ly/osgeosurvey2</a><br><br>The area within the blue line represents those who voted "unimportant" for the topic and within the red line those who voted "important". These are aggregates of "least important, low importance" vs "fairly, very, most important". "Marginal importance" was ignored for this graph. Note the larger the gap between the red and blue lines on an axis shows a greater difference in voting preference. The two rings represent 50% and 100% of votes.<br><br>Even from this perspective it shows a very strong support for the academic idea, with Government in second. Then Open Standards and Open Data.<br><br>Not a perfect summary but it's got me thinking and thought you might find it interesting too. More to come when I get a chance to dig through the numbers. <br><br>Thanks to all who voted!_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br></div></div></span>
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