And that misses the point, That's just companies - were a majority is volunteer time. Like Chris is paid to work on Koha 1 FTE, but that's only about 1/2 of the amount of time he works on Koha, easily another 40 hours a week is all completely volunteer.
Good difficult questions Marshall (you totally got me thinking today - I love it) - I don't think the project will ever be fairly compared. I'd just say the open source project rocks all by itself ;) On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Brendan Gallagher < i...@bywatersolutions.com> wrote: > Now that we have a better idea of the answer you are looking for. > > Roughly estimating all companies that support Koha (12 of them in India, 6 > in Spain alone) I'd say Koha is 1500+ easily. > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Chris Cormack <ch...@bigballofwax.co.nz> > wrote: > >> >> >> On 13 February 2015 at 10:14, Marshall Breeding < >> marshall.breed...@librarytechnology.org> wrote: >> >>> Brendan, >>> >>> >>> >>> Some personnel FTE numbers from last year can be seen on the tables from >>> the Library Systems Report: >>> >>> >>> http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/sites/americanlibrariesmagazine.org/files/content/Charts_MarshallBreeding.pdf >>> >>> >>> >>> The numbers are for the company overall, and not limited to efforts >>> expended on specific products or projects. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> In that case for Catalyst there are 235 staff, of which 182 are devs >> >> Chris >> >> > > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Brendan A. Gallagher > ByWater Solutions > CEO > > Support and Consulting for Open Source Software > Installation, Data Migration, Training, Customization, Hosting > and Complete Support Packages > Headquarters: Santa Barbara, CA - Office: Redding, CT > Phone # (888) 900-8944 > http://bywatersolutions.com > i...@bywatersolutions.com > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brendan A. Gallagher ByWater Solutions CEO Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Installation, Data Migration, Training, Customization, Hosting and Complete Support Packages Headquarters: Santa Barbara, CA - Office: Redding, CT Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com i...@bywatersolutions.com _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
