[udig-devel] docs in uDig -> bring on the linux

[Jody Garnett]

Peter N. Schweitzer wrote:
> Adrian,
>
> I appreciate your mapping out the terrain for me.  While I've done
> a lot of programming, I'm not sure that I'm ready to become a developer
> of uDig or geotools yet.  What I would point out, however, is that
> even though many of you might regard uDig as a relatively primitive
> tool, for those of us working in Linux it looks really good, and it
> has some crucial features that ArcExplorer doesn't (projection support,
> access to PostGIS).  Yes I know Grass is available, but uDig looks
> and works a lot more like the ESRI tools that we learned GIS on.
> So you may find a lot more Linux users coming your way, asking
> questions, and (hopefully) contributing to the docs.
Sweet :-)

My boss somewhere has a blog entry on why "users" are not useful. It is true
that developers are much more central to the early success of most open 
source
projects.
- http://geotips.blogspot.com/2006/08/i-dont-hate-users.html

I tend to think GIS is a slightly different field, because in GIS the 
data is scares and
users run the application past far more weird and wonderful data than 
the developers
could ever get their hands on.

So bring on the users I say :-)
Jody.
PS. Of course if anyone does have paid uDig based work Refractions is 
always interested