Tue, 21 Apr 2009
Where is Open Source?
I saw a link today to a map that some people at Red Hat put together. The map is Here. What i found really intresting is the reasons that different countries have high standings.
- USA - Community
- Brazil - Government
- Australia - Industry
- France - Government and Community
France being number 1 overall suprissed me. That is likely due to my own ignorance. they were number 1 in government contributions and number 3 for community.
Business leeds the way in Australia ranked 4th, followed by commuity and Govenment both being in the top 15 overall australia is 4th which is pretty impressive. Makes me proud to be an aussie.
The United States comes in at number 9 dragged down by the government. the community ranked 2 strongly leads the way. I think the govt really needs to pay more attention to what the people are doing and lead the way for industry here. with high profile govt contributions like selinux its sad that they are not ranked higher.
Brazil has a really strong government contribution, number 3 overall. The country as a whole comes in 12th, community is pretty good being in the top 15. Industry is the big thing dragging things down at 43rd. I'm going to be attending FISL in Porto Alegre in June. I hope that with the wonderful fedora abasador community that we can come up with some ideas for helping improve industry participation in Open Source from Brazil.
look forward to me blogging about FISL, and open source in brazil.If anyone knows of some good tools for learning Brazillian Portugese please drop me a line.
posted at: 20:57 | link | | 3 comments
Posted by bochecha at Tue Apr 21 21:29:33 2009
« France being number 1 overall suprissed me. That is likely due to my own ignorance. »
I'm french and was totally shoked to learn we are first. I can't see how that happened :-/
Government is currently trying to impose some laws on copyright and internet filtering that (other than the fact it is limiting private liberty) will be a threat to FOSS users and developers.
And our government is number one is FOSS adoption ? Come on... :S
Posted by Zorg at Tue Apr 21 23:33:17 2009
I'm french too and bochecha has totally true. Our Minister of Culture confuse a firewall with OpenOffice.org (you can see video on youtube) !
Posted by Diego Búrigo Zacarão at Wed Apr 22 11:44:23 2009
Hopefully we will be able to communicate better this year, even in Brazilian Portuguese. :)
Looking to forward to see you again in Brazil, after I also go back to there. :P