Re: [WebDNA] Poll: Discussion Forum
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2009
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Maybe WSC could start this by offering their forum as an Open Source to get the community started and WebDNA rolling... I suggested that some time ago but the answer is still pending - they might just be busy doing the next version ;) Palle On 03/08/2009, at 18.54, Dan Strong wrote: > Pat, I have not built a forum (I have simple comment-posting code, > etc, but not a full-blown forum), but I was thinking about this very > subject the other day and came to many of the exact same conclusions > that you did. One thing that did pop out to me would be to offer the > remaining ownership in WSC (if there's any left?) as compensation > for code that developers choose to release into the wild. Sure, > everybody likes cash, but WSC stock is an attractive option to me, > so I have to think I'm not the only one who feels this way. -Dan > > > On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:19:44 -0500 > Patrick McCormick
wrote: >> I'm curious to know how many of you have built a discussion forum. >> I'm trying to get a picture of the amount of effort we may all be >> duplicating and I'm looking for ideas to allow us all to work more >> efficiently. >> If we were all contributing to an open-source discussion forum, it >> would certainly save us all time and produce a better final result. >> It would also be great wor WebDNA because it would allow us to >> compete better with PHP. New users would be able to get a forum >> site up and running in WebDNA just like they can with PHP. >> In fact, if we were to produce ours to take advantage of things >> like jQuery's ThemeRoller, we would have some distinct advantages >> over PHP versions because some of that code is fairly old. >> The problem is that some programmers have put years of work into >> their forums. It would be asking a lot to simply hand that work >> over. >> Can we start a new discussion forum from scratch, using SubVersion >> control, which all programmers can contribute to? >> Can we find a way to fairly compensate whoever has some good >> starting code to get us down the road further? >> How important is a discussion forum to each of you? >> Pat > > --------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us > old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/ >
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Maybe WSC could start this by offering their forum as an Open Source to get the community started and WebDNA rolling... I suggested that some time ago but the answer is still pending - they might just be busy doing the next version ;) Palle On 03/08/2009, at 18.54, Dan Strong wrote: > Pat, I have not built a forum (I have simple comment-posting code, > etc, but not a full-blown forum), but I was thinking about this very > subject the other day and came to many of the exact same conclusions > that you did. One thing that did pop out to me would be to offer the > remaining ownership in WSC (if there's any left?) as compensation > for code that developers choose to release into the wild. Sure, > everybody likes cash, but WSC stock is an attractive option to me, > so I have to think I'm not the only one who feels this way. -Dan > > > On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:19:44 -0500 > Patrick McCormick wrote: >> I'm curious to know how many of you have built a discussion forum. >> I'm trying to get a picture of the amount of effort we may all be >> duplicating and I'm looking for ideas to allow us all to work more >> efficiently. >> If we were all contributing to an open-source discussion forum, it >> would certainly save us all time and produce a better final result. >> It would also be great wor WebDNA because it would allow us to >> compete better with PHP. New users would be able to get a forum >> site up and running in WebDNA just like they can with PHP. >> In fact, if we were to produce ours to take advantage of things >> like jQuery's ThemeRoller, we would have some distinct advantages >> over PHP versions because some of that code is fairly old. >> The problem is that some programmers have put years of work into >> their forums. It would be asking a lot to simply hand that work >> over. >> Can we start a new discussion forum from scratch, using SubVersion >> control, which all programmers can contribute to? >> Can we find a way to fairly compensate whoever has some good >> starting code to get us down the road further? >> How important is a discussion forum to each of you? >> Pat > > --------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us > old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/ >
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