WebObjects Foundation
WebObjects Foundation
- Subject: WebObjects Foundation
- From: Pascal Robert <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 01:44:21 -0400
Ok, let's start talking about a WebObjects Foundation (or Alliance,
or whatever).
Why do we need such a thing ?
The Foundation will be responsible to market WO, collecting money to
help speed up the development of open source tools (Entity Modeler,
etc.) and to have an unified voice to communicate with Apple. It
will help all WO people to get to know each other, find
resources and tracking bugs.
On which model ?
The Mozilla Foundation and the Apache Software Foundation are the
best examples of a working foundation.
Give me more details.
For marketing, we had those ideas :
- create a list of all Foundation members so that people can see
that many people are actually using WO for interessing applications
- create some hype by going to conferences like O'Reilly's Web 2.0
so that we can show that WO is actually cool, but also better and
more mature than solutions like PHP and Ruby On Rails
- the Foundation should buy some keywords on Google AdWords so that
we can get more people on the Foundation's site
- convince Apple to link to the Foundation site
For bug tracking :
- create a tool where people can add their Radar bugs, and find
bugs submitted by other people. It should be possible for people
to vote on bugs that they also have,
this way we will be able to report the more important bugs to Apple
- we can also use the same tools to track bugs for tools created by
the community
Donations :
- donations should be possible to help financing open source tools
development, to organize the future WO conference (WOConf) and to pay
for fees like the Foundation's Web site and Google AdWords
Software :
- approve versions of open-source tools for production use, maybe
also creating complete packages with various tools
You have other ideas ? You want to participate in the creation of
the Foundation ? You think that's it a bad idea ? Please reply :-)
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