I meant more, having a non-developer managing an open source project as a domain-expert/customer, and having them forcibly going out to interest developers.
Seems to happen rarely in open source. It's why the best open source projects are ones that do something the developer wanted [ie they were the domian-expert]. Referred to as scratching your own itch. Hen On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Jerry Yeager wrote: > No major reasons why it should not work, some of the most intense effort > at the moment (if you look at the on-going projects) is getting > Open-Source versions of commercial software, the two things can live > side-by-side as Adobe's PhotoShop and The Gimp have done. > > Jerry > > On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 04:54 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > > > > > Hadn't thought of sf in that sense, but I guess there's no reason why > > you > > couldn't open an account, propose a project, then look to hire > > developers > > through the help wanted bit... > > > > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Jerry Yeager wrote: > > > >> Here you go: > >> > >> http://sourceforge.net/ > >> > >> Toss 'em the project and see what they say... > >> > >> > >> Jerry > >> > >> On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 04:29 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> Hmmm. > >>> > >>> Isn't there a website for people to submit requests for open source > >>> work > >>> to be done? > >>> > >>> I bet there's some open source coders sitting in a bedroom trying to > >>> hack > >>> out a web browser who would kill to learn of such an opening. > >>> > >>> They have a previously good product to copy, they have a market who > >>> will > >>> accept any product that gets relatively near, and even accept bugs as > >>> they'll be more pissed at the previous company.... > >>> > >>> Sounds almost perfect :) > >>> > >>> Hell... design the product and put your design online under and open > >>> licence. Nothing in the ideals of open source that says only > >>> developers > >>> can create software. > >>> > >>> Users should be able to design the software requirements they want and > >>> put > >>> them out there waiting for a set of developers to be interested. The > >>> higher the quality of the reqs, the quicker the code mighthappen. > >>> > >>> Just an idea... > >>> > >>> Hen > >>> > >>> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Bill Rising wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 9/18/02 14:19, Robert M. Klein wrote > >>>> > >>>>> Just for giggles, here?s an email I just received: > >>>>> > >>>>> Robert, > >>>>> > >>>>> We have discontinued support for our Mac product line. If you have > >>>>> at least > >>>>> one Windows PC in your office you can use Timeslips on that computer > >>>>> and > >>>>> continue to use the Macs for data entry via our Timeslips eCenter > >>>>> service. > >>>>> You can visit www.timeslipsecenter.com > >>>>> <http://www.timeslipsecenter.com> > >>>>> for more information on this service. I do not know of any other > >>>>> time and > >>>>> billing software packages for the Mac. Please let me know if you > >>>>> have any > >>>>> other questions. > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks, > >>>>> > >>>>> John Perry > >>>>> Timeslips Sales Consultant > >>>>> > >>>>> I don?t have the thread in the group from a few months ago about > >>>>> time > >>>>> and > >>>>> billing programs for the Mac; it is essential that it be able to do > >>>>> the same > >>>>> tasks and import all of my Timeslips data (11 years worth!). Any > >>>>> suggestions? > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks, > >>>>> Robert > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> You should tell them that if there are no other packages, they could > >>>> have > >>>> a monopoly. > >>>> > >>>> Anyways, I checked out timeslips last fall and found it way more > >>>> complex > >>>> than any of the other timekeeping apps I'd ever used on the Mac, > >>>> which > >>>> are: > >>>> > >>>> Multitimer Pro > >>>> TimeSlice > >>>> Project Timer > >>>> Time Track X > >>>> > >>>> I don't know the state of Linux time-tracking software, but perhaps > >>>> there > >>>> is something out there that could be ported to Mac OS X. > >>>> > >>>> Bill > >>>> > >>>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September > >>>> 24 > >>>> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > >>>> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September > >>> 24 > >>> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > >>> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September > >> 24 > >> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > >> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > >> > >> > > > > > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 > > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > > > > > > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 > For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of > activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. > > The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
