Hello, I thought this article would be of interest to the gdal-dev community:
See page 5, "Aspects of the Social Organization and Trajectory of the R Project". http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2009-2/RJournal_2009-2.pdf In particular I found this interesting: "Many open-source projects, such as the Linux operating system, have strongly hierarchical structures, and some, such as Perl, revolve around a central individual. . . . Although I haven’t formally surveyed the many existing open source projects, the R Project is apparently unusual in its flat formal organization of independent volunteers. This structure has attracted a remarkably talented and competent group of individuals, but, as I will argue later in this aper, it poses challenges for moving the R Project forward." Regards, Mike. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
