GNOME Census report now available as free download
I was delighted to see that the GNOME Census presentation I gave yesterday at GUADEC has gotten a lot of attention. And I’m pleased to announce a change of plan from what I presented yesterday: The report is now available under a Creative Commons license.
Why the change of heart? My intention was never to make a fortune with the report, my main priority was covering my costs and time spent. And after 24 hours, I’ve achieved that. I have had several press requests for the full report, and requests from clients to be allowed to use the report both with press and with their clients.
This solution is the best for all involved, I think – I have covered my costs, the community (and everyone else) gets their hands on the report with analysis as soon as possible, and my clients are happy to have the report available under a license which allows them to use it freely.
You can download the full report now for free.
Posted: July 29th, 2010 under Business, Community, GNOME, Research.
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July 30th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Figure 3.
being dependent, depending, dependency. No ‘a’ to be in there. (“dependant”, as the -ant suffix shows, is declaring a nominative item, e.g. person).
to develop, developing, development. One ‘p’, not pp and not ppe.
August 2nd, 2010 at 7:24 am
[...] The full report titled “The GNOME Census : Who writes GNOME ?” is available as a free download from Neary Consulting. [...]
August 3rd, 2010 at 6:53 am
[...] Developer Participation In GNOME By amolkulkarni A glance through the GNOME census report brings out the following details – The GNOME 2.30 release and external dependencies consists of 189 modules. This represents 13 years of coding, and over 468000 individual changesets. Since the project’s inception, over 3000 individuals have committed changes. The most prolific 5% of the developers (top 165) have together made 65% of all the changes in the 13 year history of GNOME. Red Hat is said to be the biggest contributor to the project and its core dependencies, with its employees being responsible for nearly 17% of all commits. Canonical, Collabora, Fluendo, Intel, Novell, and Sun Microsystems have also contributed substantially to the GNOME project. 70% of the GNOME developers are volunteers. A further 20% say they have contributed to GNOME project both as a volunteer and a paid developer. The full report titled “The GNOME Census : Who writes GNOME ?” is available as a free download from Neary Consulting. [...]