Re: WOCommunity Apple Developer Account
Re: WOCommunity Apple Developer Account
- Subject: Re: WOCommunity Apple Developer Account
- From: "Patrick Abuzeni M.D." <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:44:36 -0400
I think this discussion is very timely. Just a week ago I sent an
email to Pascal seeking his help to try to come up with ideas to
improve upon what we already have in the WO community. An excerpt of
my email went like this:
"My proposal is first based on setting up a non-profit educational
foundation. This foundation will then be able to receive tax-
deductible donations and contributions, etc. We should also actively
pursue donations from major corporations. We should then dedicate some
time and talent to write manuals and material for new developers. We
should also consider setting up a scholarship fund to encourage
learning WO. We should also encourage employers to hire "interns" as
part of their training. An affiliation with a college or university
would be tremendously powerful. And a certification would come handy
at some point too. I have made initial contacts with some individuals
of which I think the first few elements of this campaign would be
doable. For example we don't need to set up our own non-profit (too
costly), but we can piggyback on someone else's. We have also begun
putting together a WO starter manual. This manual describes every step
of getting started from absolute scratch. I would like more content to
be added in the future by others in the community. We can easily
publish this book on the iBook store and the proceeds could go towards
the non-profit foundation. I also have someone in mind that could
write the teaching curriculum. More work would be needed of course to
structure the existing material and to have it peer reviewed. I
wholeheartedly believe that we need to rally everyone to selflessly
commit to the WO community in order save it."
To summarize and also expand on some of your earlier comments:
1- Restructure the wocommunity.org to be a by-membership organization.
We should elect a board and a president (probably every 2 years).
Changing leadership would inject new ideas and new initiatives every
once in a while. The board should remain as a stable entity and where
it will have alternate elections. In other words, not all seats will
be up at once.
2- Set up a separate non-profit organization ASAP. Like I mentioned
earlier, we can piggyback on another organization for the time being
and until we can get our own. I think getting a non-profit approved by
the IRS is a timely process and will require that we know what we're
doing. I think it would be best to piggyback at first. I know of one
non-profit organization here that I have worked with in the past. I
don't mind asking.
3- Establish the concept of committees that will address certain
issues like Publication, Education etc.
4- Begin to (e-)publish our own material and cleanup/streamline/
centralize all common and educational material. Obviously, the
proceeds should be funneled back to the wocommunity and the non-profit
org.
5- Lastly, to establish an internship training/employment programs as
well as stipends intended to encourage new developers to join and to
expose the WO technology to a broader and younger audience.
Many specialty medical organizations have similar structures as
outlined above.
XeoTech, LLC
Patrick Abuzeni, MD
248 Palermo Avenue
Coral Gables, FL 33134
Tel: 305-444-2888
Fax: 305-444-2333
www.xeotech.com
On Mar 10, 2012, at 7:02 PM, David Avendasora wrote:
Hi all,
I think it would be an excellent idea for WOCommunity to have an
Apple Developer Account because it would give a unified face to the
organization for Apps like RuleModeler, but it would also make it
possible to release eBooks for things like "Getting Started with
WebObjects" and such and create a way for the community to generate
revenue.
Sure, we can still offer the tools and content for free, but I'm
betting that there are some people who will pay for them just
because they *can* pay for them.
Unfortunately, before we can create the account, I think that we
really need to be a formal organization, which we have discussed
several times. We can't leave everything to Pascal. He's only one
person, and he already does an insane amount of work for the
community. Maybe he's still the right one to do this, but then
someone needs to take on some of the other work that he's already
doing.
Who will step forward and commit to taking on responsibilities?
I'd be willing to take on Jenkins management and configuration.
Dave
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