list of developers

[Daniel Morissette]

Howard Butler wrote:
> 
> While we're at it, can we get the Sponsors page up to date also? 
> <http://ms.gis.umn.edu/development/sponsors>.
> 

I realize that maintaining a list of sponsors like this is a nice to 
have, but it will never be possible to list every single organization 
that funded work or features, or to decide on the size of hte 
contribution to qualify to be listed... and if the list is not complete 
or accurate then does it make sense to have it at all?

In some cases it's obvious who funded a given feature or significant 
piece of work (at least the initial funding), but in many cases the 
initial development is funded by an organization and then refined by 
others over time through smaller direct or indirect contributions. For 
instance, OGC support is listed under DMSG, but this work was funded by 
multiple sources over 5 years, some governments, some private 
businesses, and some just paid for by DMSG too, then there were in kind 
contributions by people like Tom and Bart testing OGC support in each 
release. Listing every single organization is almost imposible, that's 
almost like listing every customer that DM Solutions and every developer 
had over the years.

I'm not saying that we should not give credit to funding sources, I 
would love to do that, I'm just not sure how to practically do it. Has 
anyone seen other projects that do this well and how they do it?

Daniel
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  Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
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