How big is the Open Source Geo developer and consultancy community?

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How big is the Open Source Geo developer and consultancy community?

I am trying to gather some information to build an understanding of the size of the Open Source Geo business community. This is the first stage in a longer term project to build a model of the impact and economic benefits of Open Source Geo. Assuming that I get sufficient responses, I hope to present my findings as part of a talk that I will be giving at FOSS4G 2016 in Bonn at the end of August. If you aren't already at my blog post on Size Matters, please read it for some more background on this survey http://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/blog/size-matters/

This short survey aims to gather some basic stats on companies (from one man bands to very large companies) whose activities are based on the provision of development and services in Open Source Geo (either wholly or a significant part). Even though revenue and employee numbers will often be available from public sources, I will only present the results in aggregated formats to ensure that individual company info cannot be derived from my presentation. If you are uncertain about providing information to this survey please check with a senior manager within your organisation before responding.

If you have any questions you would like to ask me before completing this survey (or afterwards) you can contact me via http://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/contact/

If you know other organisations who you think might want to contribute to this survey, please forward the link to them.

Thanks for your interest and contribution

Steven Feldman

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About you and your organisation

I am using the term Open Source Geo to include software deployment, services, consultancy and commercial activities based on OSGeo projects, Eclipse LocationTech projects and other geospatial open source software projects.

To be clear if your organisation only uses (rather than develops, contributes to or consults with) Open Source Geo software then this is not you.

If you are an individual who contributes part time to Open Source Geo you can flag this

Your name *

I have asked for your name and email address so that I can follow up with you if I have any queries and also to let you know when the results are available. I will not pass your personal info to anyone else.

Email *

I have asked for your name and email address so that I can follow up with you if I have any queries and also to let you know when the results are available. I will not pass your personal info to anyone else.

Your organisation name *

Web address

Country *

If your business operates in more than one country, please enter the country where most of your people are based

Company, division or an individual? *

Is geospatial the main activity of your company or is there a geospatial team within a larger entity?

Whole company

Part of a larger company

Sole trader (choose this if you are an individual working full time or close to full time in Open Source Geo)

Individual part time contributor (choose this if you occasionally contribute to Open Source Geo projects either paid or unpaid)

An organisation that uses Open Source Geo as part of it's business and contributes resources back to the community

Other:

What does your organisation do?

A couple of questions that will help to describe your organisation's open source geo activities and focus

Industries served *

Central/Federal Government

Local Government

Emergency Services (Police, Fire and Ambulance)

Defence and Intelligence

Utilities (Telco, Electric, Gas and Water)

Land and Property

Other:

Required

Open Source Geospatial activities *

Please list all significant open source geospatial activities of your organisation, by significant I mean activities that represent at least 10% of your overall activity

Development of Open Source Geospatial software i.e. contributing to established projects

Development of products and services that are largely based on Open Source Geospatial software e.g. a SaaS or DaaS offer

Services based on Open Source Geospatial software e.g. implementation, customisation, consultancy

Training

Support

Hosting

Other:

Required

Other activities

Does your organisation get involved in other activities?

Open Data

General (non geo) development and consulting

GIS consulting and services based on non open source technologies

Other:

Affiliations

Are you a member of any Open Source or Open Data organisations?

OSGeo Foundation

OSGeo Local Chapter

Eclipse LocationTech

Other:

Anything else you want to say about your organisation?

The numbers

Please provide some revenue and employee numbers for the most recent year available. Providing numbers will increase the information that we can derive from this survey but they are not mandatory.

If you work for a large organisation that has a team or business unit working on Open Source GeoSpatial projects please estimate the percentage of overall activity that is geospatial. If you aren't sure how to estimate revenues and you know the number of people employed in your team, use that percentage of total employees to estimate revenues.

The responses are banded, to provide some anonymisation of information. If you would like to provide exact numbers please do so in the "Other" response option.

How many people does your organisation or team employ in geo development, services and commercial activities? *

I'd rather not say

1

2-5

6-10

11-20

21-50

51-100

101-250

Over 250

Other:

What are the revenues from geo development and services of your organisation or team? *

Please provide your revenue from geospatial activities for the most recent year. Please convert revenue figure to either US Dollars

I'd rather not say

Up to $50,000

$50,000 to $100,000

$100,000 to $250,000

$250,000 to $500,000

$500,000 to $1m

$1m to $2m

$2m to $5m

$5m to $10m

$10m to $20m

Over $25m

Other:

Non monetary contributions

If you as an individual or your organisation contributes time to Open Source Geo projects (code, documentation, marketing, outreach, volunteering on committees and events) can you provide an indication of the number of person days in the last year.

Almost finished

Anything else?

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