We had 36 people respond to our poll on how much you know about agile product/software management.

31% I've never heard of it.

28% I use it.

23% I know what it is.

20% I've heard of it.

Next up: What's the hardest working piece of hardware on your desk?

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A few weeks back we asked: What's the most valuable thing you bring home from a geo-conference? 36 people voted.

A pile of business cards of prospects - 25%
Pens, t-shirts and other swag - 23%
Something else - 17%
A pile of business cards of potential partners - 12%
The proceedings - 9%
A new job - 6%
A pile of business cards of tech people to tap for support - 6%
Company literature - 6%

One comment worth noting:

I wish geo conferences had more "updates on the field" talks. Something like one hour of an excellent speaker giving us bits about various applications of the technology that we ought to know about as well as run-downs of new players in the industry, and new capabilities of GIS. Most of us are very focused on our narrow field (either a particular application, development, statistics, web, etc.) so a quick summary of all the other things GISy that go on outside of our normal day-to-day activities would be very helpful.

And this week: How much do you know about agile product/software management? Vote on the lower right corner of our homepage.

After receiving a surprising snail mail piece from a geo-company, I asked: Which are you most likely to respont to positively?

Eighteen readers responded.

67% - Neither, I ignore them all!
23% - E-mailed unsolicted geo communications
12% - Snail mail unsolicited geo mailings

So perhaps its best to pack in the stamps, at least for this crowd. Next up: What's the most valuable thing you bring home from a geo-conference?

We asked: What is most likely to encourage you to participate in a geo-related survey? We had 40 respondents:

33% topic
20 % organization behind it
15% length
10% chance of winning a prize
10% receiving complemetary/discounted results from the survey
5% nothing would make me participate in such a survey
3% something else

Next up which is more effective: snail mail or e-mail solicitations? Vote on the lower right hand corner of our main page.

We asked about the most likely future event two weeks ago. 32 readers responded:

Someone buys Garmin 25%
Someone buys DigitalGlobe 19%
Someone buys Intergraph 19%
Someone buys TomTom 19%
Another geo acquisition 10%

This week for some reason I was asked to participate in several geo-related surveys. Our next poll question: What is most likely to encourage you to participate in a geo-related survey?

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Two weeks ago we asked: How many geo software users do you think are using open source, even if they don't know it?

Of 57 votes:

About 25%
39%

About 50%
29%

About 100%
22%

About 75%
9%

I'm going to jump in and suggest the percentage is quite high because so many proprietary vendors use open source code. Perhaps you missed this post on ESRI's use of GDAL?

Next up: predictions about future acquisitions. Vote in the lower right of our main page.