Manuel,
I hope your efforts to encourage community development are a success. I
always admire a company that makes a committment to open source technology
like your's has.
The Sunburned Surveyor
On 3/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Sunburned:
About blog entry I would like to make a small comment. You said:
> "Kosmo's bold development of the JUMP code base shows us two
> important things:
[1] Given a serious commitment, an open source program like OpenJUMP
can produce serious results.
[2] OpenJUMP/JUMP is a viable platform for commercial development and
support.
If nothing else, Kosmo is worthy of mention and merits a measure of
respect on for its demonstration of these 2 things alone."
First of all, thank you very much for your comments.
> "However, it is important to remember that the fate of Kosmo lies in
> large part with a single entity. This is a single entity that is
> driven by one primary goal. Profit. Sometimes the goal of profit
> creates no conflicts with the goal s of the user community, and
> sometimes it does."
We are a private company as you said. But we believe in a new business
model. We think is possible to work (and live of it) in the Open GIS
world. But, this is important for us, the only way to do it is by
running one step behind. Nine people (by now) it is not to much
people. Community is very important to us so thats why we must have
two parallel activities.
- Kosmo Corporative Free Platform (Kosmo-Desktop is just one piece).
It must be open to the community and in a collaborative way.
- Specific projects we work in and we are paid of. They become Kosmo
specific extensions.
So, we want to maintain both ways:
- Kosmo base in wich community have a lot to say and can be involved.
In fact we would like to promote people around the world knowing Kosmo
core, suggesting or developing code upgrades, creating extensions,
etc. (We are working in documenting, extensions howto and so on). In
this way is very important to us the user community goal. If we want
to spread Kosmo community must be happy and satisfied with Kosmo goal.
- Specific project works, obviously very important for us. They are
responsible of the team health.
Regards
Manuel Navarro
Kosmo Team
Quoting Sunburned Surveyor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've got about 20 messages in my inbox about OpenJUMP that I've only
skimmed
> or haven't even read. I am going to try to get through most of these
> tomorrow and Tuesday. I want to make sure that every poster gets at
least
> one response from us, if Stefan or Larry haven't already beat me to it.
:]
>
> I have added 2 or 3 posts to my OpenJUMP blog over the course of the
last
> week. This includes some thoughts on integrating changes from Kosmo,
some
> comments about why it's so important to develop OpenJUMP using plug-ins,
and
> some news on the OpenJUMP and OpenJUMp-Ex releases. You'll find the
posts at
> http://openjump.blogspot.com/. I welcome any comments and responses on
what
> I have posted there.
>
> The Sunburned Surveyor
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