Mapping The Corporate Open Source World?

Posted by Cliff on Monday November 4, 2002 @12:12PM from the learning-the-lay-of-the-market dept.

jukal asks: "I am building a contact database about open source activities and their contacts in large companies. It will be a kind of 'mindmap' positioning each of the big players, listing their key characteristics, their publically stated views on Open Source, and possible connections between the activities of the companies. Could you provide me with a helping hand to get started. Yes, I am doing this for the purposes of Openchallenge but I believe many others would benefit as well. I would like to map the open source world from the 'corporate viewing point' :) Post the details - or anything you got - here, or directly to me [/. profile] And as there will anyway be someone saying 'Go Google It Yourself' - If you think it's Google-able, give it a shot. If this has been already done, then that would be excellent!"

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Privacy by Trusty+Penfold · 2002-11-04 12:24 · Score: 2, Insightful

Do you think all these people will mind you putting their names and contact information into a huge database?
On second thought... by Alethes · 2002-11-04 13:20 · Score: 5, Insightful

It might be better to have some sort of website somewhere with a form for people to use to fill out that contact database for you, rather than trying to somehow harvest that data from /. posts. If people believe in this idea, they'll volunteer their time to help make this a very thorough database.