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GNOME Census
The GNOME census is a detailed report on the GNOME project, including analysis of which companies are contributing to GNOME, how much, and why, and the effects of commercialisation on the GNOME community. The project is available for sale now.
Services
Our services include:
- A guide to contributing to free software community – infrastructure and communication channels, principal maintainers, procedures for submitting modifications
- An audit of your current development practices, interaction with communities, and objectives
- Proposal of measures that your organisation can take to improve productivity and achieve your goals, adapted to your budget, your development teams and your objectives
- Follow-up training, and on-site project management during the transitional period while your team adapts to the free software community
- Audits of your licence usage, and clear and simple explanations of the consequences of licence choice for your products
- Boot-strapping the release of a product under a Free Software licence – from licence choice and an audit of copyright, training of internal teams, setting up and rolling out infrastructure, and post-launch communication and project management
Rates
The work we do varies wildly from one client to another, so it is difficult to give hard & fast numbers for our cost. Our rates depend on the type of service requested, and the duration of the partnership.
Nevertheless, we can give a general idea of cost based on past clients. An audit of your existing community processes, and the preparation of a handbook to advise you on the future development of your community, could cost anywhere between €6000 and €10 000, depending on the scope of the review you request. For general consulting work, we charge €150 per hour, available in 40 hour blocks, excluding expenses, which can be used during the year. Due to the time investment required, training services for small groups can cost up to €3,000 per day. For groups of 5 or more, we charge €800 per participant per day. Longer interventions in the role of project or community manager are billed at €850 per day.
If this price schedule doesn’t suit your needs or budget, let us know. We may be able to work something out.