With the announcement yesterday, as Scott suggested the next step for the evolution of MetaCard's IDE is to form a discussion list to focus on IDE development. There's a lot to discuss so we should get that going soon.
I'm a big fan of Yahoo Groups, and one of the readers here suggested turning the existing group at <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/metacard/> into the MetaCard IDE group. I haven't been in contact with that moderator, so I don't know how he might feel about changing the focus of the group from general MC discussion to IDE development and management. We should also consider the existing subscribers, who joined with the intention of participating in general discussion and who may be put off or even bored by the more focused working group. Another factor is that the group cited above has its messages hidden from non-subscribers, but I feel a group like the one being considered benefits from allowing messages to be read publicly. After all, open source is about being open. This can be changed by the moderator of course, but there may be reasons he set it up like that which should be taken into account before requesting change. Things we need to decide: - Is Yahoo Groups acceptable as a groupware solution for this project? With its discussion list, file repository, calendar, and links it gets my vote, but there may be things I'm overlooking. - If so, is it simpler to alter the existing group or create a new one? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard