[NCLUG] Case History Call

[Chad Perrin]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 08:07:52AM -0600, Michael Riversong wrote:
> This may be a bit OT, but there's a method to this madness.  As some of you may know, i'm a member of New Energy Congress.  We're a volunteer organization doing what we can to help inventors get worthwhile technologies to market.
> 
> Increasingly we have been discussing the possibility of open-sourcing certain energy generation and transportation technologies.  We're looking to computer open source projects as possible models.
> 
> At this point, i know some of the basics, as in how several of the big and well-known groups got going and are maintaining themselves.  I'm very interested in smaller scale projects, and how the people involved with these physically survive.  Any case histories would be appreciated.  You may change names to protect the guilty if necessary.
> 
> Please send any such case histories privately to my email address rivedu at earthlink.net  in order to keep list traffic on purpose.  Thank you!

Just a quick on-list response:

In general, I suspect that the vast majority of people involved in small
open source projects "physically survive" by having day jobs that are not
necessarily connected with their open source software projects at all.

There are exceptions, of course.

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
Brian K. Reid: "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."