Surely, it's more political or philosophical than merely sharing php
code..
the fact is that after ten years or more there's still not a single
successful web authoring application that's publishes accessible
validated code and is used by the public. (in part which explains the
rise of blogging) The reasons are well known, for example, experts
are more easily tied into upgrades, developers attached to feature
creep, etc
Similarly much of web2.0 is server based which significantly reduces
the possibilities for sharing or engaging the public in authoring.
cheers
Jonathan Chetwynd
On 1 Nov 2006, at 12:13, Ian Forrester wrote:
Not to be a party-pooper but one thing that characterised my initial
impression of backstage was disappointment at the number of things
people were doing that were NOT open source, especially from some of
the more prolific authors here.
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I think there is certainly something very different about the
backstage development community compared to other developer networks.
Not a lot of code does get shared, yes I agree. But I don't believe
the reason is because people don't care.
Maybe the time just hasn't come up yet or even people feel Backstage
isn't the place to get really into the code?
Yet, I see these little widgets & mash-ups go by, cool 'n all ... but
no code, so who cares? A shame! (And soo last millennium).
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The widget competition comes at a very interesting point in there
conception. People are sitting up and thinking about what's actually
possible with widgets and where there path into the future goes. So
last millennium I would certainly disagree.
There's also nothing stopping people from sharing the code of the
widgets. Ideally when we first wrote the competition, we were going
to post up the entries straight away, so everyone could discuss and
learn from each other. But with the prizes and contest element to it
all, it didn't seem feasible.
We've learned from that, and you will found out on Monday 6th what
were planning next. I certainly feel the next thing will make people
collaborate more and who knows what might happen.
But on a side point.
I'm not saying collaboration isn't happening! I've seen examples
where someone will take some rough and barely ready data source and
wrap it up in something much more understandable. Then someone will
write a prototype off that.
This may not be the model your after? But I think the game has
changed, this is the modern eco-system of development.
I'm really happy to discuss this more if people are happy to?
Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk || x83965
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