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Open source location update
July 10, 2006
One of the (many) problems with the open source location mash up I created is that it reflected the location of open source vendors, rather than developers.
Thanks to James, Kragen, Marcus, and Thomas for their comments pointing out the availability of maps showing the location of Debian, KDE and Gnome developers.
The links are in the comments but I thought they ere also worth flagging up here to ensure they are not overlooked. So here are the maps for Debian, KDE, and Gnome.
I've also found map for the OpenSolaris community, OpenBSD (scroll to the bottom of the page) and Ubuntu and if anyone knows of any others I will gladly put them up here as well.
What these maps of developers clearly show is the massive role that Europe has had in the development of open source software (as well as Africa, South America, Australia and Asia Pac, which were also overlooked by my map).
Clearly though, there is a disconnection (or dislocation, bad pun) between this and the map of open source vendors. Somewhere along the line the influence has transferred to the US. This is precisely what Matt Asay was originally referring to and trying to discourage.
Comments
Matt, nice idea. But nothing in Antarctica. Clearly penguins not as central as to open source movement as everyone seems to think.
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