said:
>When/how did you (StevenL) come up with this idea?
It just seemed to be a good idea. It seemed to make sense. I liked the
idea of the SIG producing a finished product.
>I was (and am still) reading Eric Raymond's
>"The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Steve's idea seemed
I'm not terribly concerned about the development methodology. This would
a SCOUG SIG project and I'd expect a small group of developers. All that
really matters is that we are all on the same page.
>If any ol' project would do, taking up maintenance
>for some of the OS/2 programs recently freewared
>that are mentioned in EA might be plausable,
>but some of them have the disadvantage that the
>manufacturer are still selling versions for other
>platforms & therefor less likely to give us access
>to source.
The selected app needs several characteristics:
- no good alternatives are available, where good is hard to quantify
- other developers are not working on similar apps. Why reinvent to
wheel?
- source code must be available.
- if the app is/was commercial, the owner is willing to work out
reasonable terms
- there's a reasonable expecation the the app will be widely used
- the work must be doable within the resources of the SCOUG Programming
SIG
>Kim Yueng (sp?) had some ideas on e-commerce,
He mentioned porting a commerce server. I can't guess on the potential
user base.
>Steve Levine I would guess might be interested in
>cleaning up / updating Octave.
Octave has a current OS/2 maintainer. Until this changes we would have to
work under his direction.
>Dave Watson's serious idea a while back was to put
>together a CD of apps, (maybe we could put some kind
These already exist.
>If we want to do the maximum good, it would seem
>we should be looking over the poll results from
>a couple of general meetings back to see if
>there are any prospects there.
That is a good idea.
>What does OS/2 / OS/2 community need the most
>right now? What needs to be done that someone is
>not working on? I myself am probably too far
I can list several in no particular order, some of which may not be
doable:
- RA G2 plug-in
- Better quality OCR
- USB drivers
- A stuck in exit list process killer
>EWS stuff, but that would probably require
>a the earth's axis to be shifted for that to happen.
I'm not much for tilting at windmills. Also, I've seen little in EWS that
does not have a good alternative. The fact that EWS is free and the
alternative may or may not be free is not relevant to me.
Steven
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