CMSDA
CMSDA
- Subject: CMSDA
- From: Brent Gulanowski <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 16:11:14 -0500
On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 03:22 PM, Oleg Svirgstin wrote:
Sign me up, too...
Since currently we are based upon foundations, why not "Cocoa Software
Developers Foundation"? CSDF. Cocoa software is not only applications.
That could be CSDO or CSDA.
Regards
Oleg
As long as we're being inclusive, I would suggest the formation of an
informal group by the name of Contemporary Macintosh Software Developers
Association (CMSDA), with sub-groups like Cocoa, Carbon, Driver, Kernel,
OpenGL and the like. It's about time that Apple was faced with an external
advisory group to provide developer input into their public goals and
initiatives, to help insure that they are meeting the needs of their
software-development partners.
Sometimes it seems funny that I've never heard of such a thing before. How
does everybody already in business making Mac software feel? Are their
needs too unlike everybody else's? Are they too busy? Too pessimistic?
I would certainly feel a lot more comfortable going into full-time
Macintosh software development knowing that I was joining a group of
professional colleagues who were organized and had some channels to work
through outside of mailing lists and a handful of independent websites
(many of which seem to be about providing documentation to pick up Apple's
slack).
Even a website which did some informal polling about such things as what
their top requests from Apple would be, what their most urgent bug-fix
priorities were, and the like, would be valuable.
I'm not currently in a position to volunteer any serious web-space (I'm a
student), but maybe I can whip something up on my Mac.com space once the
semester is over...
Does anybody have some significant reasons why this would be a bad idea?
Brent
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