Ok, so this is the list of the most voted "in" ideas on Google Moderator. Any opinions on this?
"We should write a Beginner Book that we can either give away for free and paid by the funds we raise by the membership fees and donations. An alternative would be to use the funds to paid in advance the authors and the revenues would go to community." I agree that a book would be nice, but I don't think it can be "profitable". Let's say it takes 12 weeks for one guy to write it, at 30 hours per week, $50 per hour. That means writing the book would cost $18 000, and let's say each sale of the book brings $10 (after Apple/Amazon cuts). We would need to sell 1800 copies of it. I think Chuck sold 3000 copies of his book, but that was in the "good old days", when the community was bigger (and that Apple was using the same version of WO as us, so they wanted the book too), I don't think we will sell enough copies, but I see the book as a marketing book, so the community should pay a part of it. "Better integration between WO and iOS/Android can be a big selling point and a way to get new people on board. Maybe we could build a system where people can upload their CoreData model and we convert it to a EOModel and generate a ERRest template." Someone also suggested support for SQLite for Titanium. "We should build a slick and dead simple landing page with awesome UX. It should have one goal of funneling switchers to installing tools and launching Hello World. We should then optimize this landing page to death via A/B tests. After building an awesome landing page, we should produce a series of killer screencasts showcasing selling points of WO and try link baiting on Hacker News, etc." I have to agree with that, but who's going to do the screencasts? "Improvements on the development and deployment tools to make them easier to work it. Make WOLips an Eclipse RCP app that will also install WO and Wonder, with built-in tutorials and help." Again, I agree. The tools is a top 3 priority. "Since we will have a 3 days boot camp before WOWODC, we should record it, sell the recordings and give a majority of the revenues to Paul and keeping a minority as funds for the community." Should we do this instead of the beginner book? Or maybe a mix of both, e.g. the book in ePub with links to the relevant parts of the recording? "I think we should use the funds to pay people to fix issues that the majority of users are having. The issues will be voted by the community and the most voted issues will become the highest priorities." _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
