07-17, 11:00–11:30 (Europe/Sarajevo), SA02
10 years ago I gave a talk at FOSS4G suggesting that if you wanted to get a "good" response from open source developers that you should try to bank some social capital first. For the next 10 years every message sent to the GeoServer user list (now defunct) had a link to that talk in it's signature. Did that make any difference?
This talk will look back on the past decade and look at the changes that have occurred in the open source community in general and in FOSS4G in particular. Many more companies and governments have jumped into using open source software as it is "free" in the gratis sense. In many cases they have not considered that "free software" is worth exactly what you pay for it. Instead they continue to show a remarkable sense of entitlement, demanding security based on automated scanning with out offering any help.
It has been suggested to me that "not everyone can be a programmer" so it is unreasonable to expect people to contribute to fixes for their software, but there are many other ways to contribute to a project such as documentation fixes, tutorials, web site design and many other things that they can do.
GeoServer, GeoTools, GDAL, QGIS etc
Assign a number between 1 and 3 indicating the level of technical complexity of your contribution. –1 - no previous knowledge needed
Select at least one general theme that best defines your proposal –Business & FOSS4G, FOSS4G at governmental institutions, Education, Community building and participatory FOSS4G
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Ian has been writing open source software for longer than he cares to remember. In the past 10 years he's been ranting about the way it is created and used.