About that engag thing. It's purely consensual. a
(one of the day's many facepalms) On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Ant Miller <ant.mil...@bbc.co.uk> wrote: > Hi all, > > I know quite a few of you have heard the Guardian Tech Weekly podcast of > last week, and in particular the bit where Jemima says that Backstage is > being wound up. In essence she was correct, but clearly we'd like to > have made the announcement ourselves, so there will be an official > announcement from Adrian Woolard on the Backstage blog in the next day > or so. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcbackstage/ > > As Jemima suggested, we are trying to avoid the project grinding to a > dead stop, and we've been working hard to have elements such as data > feeds and API's integrated into the BBC's core business. Other > elements, such as the support which we give to the community that uses > this forum, plus some internal functions which the project performed, > are also being transformed. > > We're stepping up the efforts to make sure Backstage finishes properly, > and we also need all of your help to make sure that the legacy of this > effort is as successful as possible. Over the coming weeks we are going > to try and find a way to take the best of the Backstage community into a > larger grouping. We want to maintain a sustainable way to support you, > and engag with you, but it seems odd to balkanise this community into > small specific groups, when the real strength of open development is the > aggregation of multiple platforms, data sources and pulling all of the > above together to make new applications and services based around the > users. So, we're going to see what we can set up that's better for you, > and, by extension, for us. > > This is a community though, and a vocal one at that, so please do let us > know how you feel about this. What have we missed, how can we do it > better, what opportunities do you think we can take but may have > overlooked? For the moment we will continue to support this mailing > list, and we'll probably pop into the "friends of" now and again if > we're welcome too. > > Thanks for your support, and sincere apologies that you've heard it > first second hand, > > Ant > > > _______________________ > > > Ant Miller, Senior Research Manager > > mobile: +44 (0)7809 597757 > BBC Research & Development > South Lab, BBC Centre House > 56 Wood Lane > London > W12 7SB > http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/ > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/rd/ > http://www.bbcarchive.org.uk/pmwiki/ > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- Ant Miller tel: 07709 265961 email: ant.mil...@gmail.com
