On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Bruno Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree, IMO efforts should be directed at getting more man power. Sadly, > ideas are mostly useless if there's no hands that will transform them into > actual code. I don't know... a solid business plan for a kickstarter, some > advertising magic that will attract developers to devote their time for > free, convince the public to donate copious amounts of money to the project > (this was attempted by the now-offline fundwiab > <http://www.fundwiab.com/> initiative, > but it only managed to collect maybe 20 hours worth of developer time; too > little to do any medium sized task), etc.
As Upayavira mentioned, getting a release out is crucial - its an important psychological hurdle. Having a release is also motivating for others to maybe contribute. That said, one needs to deal with the man power a project has. There is now a John around with lot of ideas. While some might argue you need more coders, why are you not building up some marketing-fu together with John? He seems to be a good writer and very passionate. Maybe you folks should set up a blog (blogs.apache.org?), utilize G+ and Twitter. As reminder: in ASF world, not only people who write code can become a project committer. Everybody who is "committed to the project" and does things, is able to become a committer. This includes marketing work, blog posting, helping with translations, answering user questions on mailing lists etc.. In Apache OpenOffice, a few people do not know what a shell is and have heard of Java just from the press. But they do an incredible job with helping users, writing docs, testing and contributing to ideas. Hence, they become committers too. What I want to say: yes, you need more coders. But don't miss a chance to get people involved who are not coding. They might become very valuable community members + committers with the tons of other tasks necessary with Wave. Cheers Christian > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Angus Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Nothing about it not being appropriate, everything about having the man >> power. Right now it's hard enough to maintain the code we've got. >> >> I personally would rather wave was written in a 'nice' language like JS or >> Python, but right now it's not worth the effort. >> >> Thanks >> Angus Turner >> [email protected] >> >> >> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:53 PM, John Blossom <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > Looking through some documentation on Wave-derived products, I am seeing >> > that there is some good use of Node.JS coding for server-side functions. >> > Why would it not be appropriate to replace some or all of the demo-model >> > code from Google on the server side with a light and powerful language >> such >> > as this? >> > >> > Good analysis of Node performance at: http://nodejs.org/jsconf2010.pdf >> > >> > Thanks for your feedback, >> > >> > John >> > >> > > > > -- > Saludos, > Bruno González > > _______________________________________________ > Jabber: stenyak AT gmail.com > http://www.stenyak.com -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de
