Re: WebObjects Foundation
Re: WebObjects Foundation
- Subject: Re: WebObjects Foundation
- From: Ian Joyner <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:34:23 +1000
On 15/08/2006, at 5:01 PM, Thomas wrote:
I think this is a great idea. Not being at WWDC, I have to guess
that this is now practical.
Ah, another geographically-challenged person.
It would be great if it brought the whole WO community together,
including Project Wonder, so that there was one place to go for
"The REAL info on WebObjects."
hmm. I was actually thinking the week before WWDC that it would be
nice if a lot of the Wonder stuff got folded back into to core of WO.
After all these guys have put it there because that's what they
believe WO should provide. For example some of the relationship
checks they have done.
Then what with the GVC libraries, we have a whole lot more
interesting stuff, although I'm sure not without intersection. And
there's probably a heap more out there. I have code for putting pop-
ups, check boxes and others in Swing tables for Java client.
I'd be happy to contribute, starting with a reasonable membership fee.
Regards
Thomas
On 15/08/2006, at 15:44, Pascal Robert wrote:
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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