Re: [ossig] FOSSCON 2005

[Ditesh <ditesh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> try in what way ? a conference will not help in creating more 
> developers nor changing mindsets. a conference will however help gain 
> more users or expose more people to the technology. the developer 
> shortage needs to be addressed with a change of mindsets by industry 
> itself and by individuals.
>
There are two ways of looking at this. A developer conference may not 
help generate a new pool of developers for existing or new foss 
projects, but it can encourage existing developers to use foss dev 
tools. For example, using PHP + WACT or Zope instead of .NET, using 
SWT+Eclipse for Java development instead of any of the existing 
proprietary IDE platforms, using JBoss for deployment instead of the 
alternatives, using Mono instead of .NET etc.

> sometimes people need to understand that the joy of creating something 
> is joy in itself. ask ditesh about the social gratification he got 
> yesterday and you'll understand why people continue to write code and 
> give it out under and open source license.

Well yeah, that call was truly elite :) But more importantly, the 
decision to foss in house code has seen significant returns. Our code 
now works correctly on a larger number of platforms  and environments 
than it did before, which increases the value of the code and our 
ability to sell it to prospective clients.

Ditesh


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