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

Jody Garnett jgarnett at refractions.net
Wed May 30 10:16:44 PDT 2007


Jody Garnett wrote:
> 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
To be fair their is a list of commercial parties available for uDig work.
- http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/Support

There has been great success in the past hiring developers to fix a 
specific problem - I do recommend this as an option (especially if you 
are against a deadline or would like to prepare for a demo).
Jody



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