Hi Stefan, Today Stefan Andersson wrote:
> Unfortunately, qooxdoo is more or less a garage project from a > marketing perspective. Very few know of it in the world. The > website is in its functionality average, but its design is > already old. Almost no money and too little time is spent on > marketing of this fantastic tool. Until that will be done, it > will still be in the garage division. Unfortunately development > goes fast and the competitors don't wait. Especially not the > commercial alternatives. One scenario could be an alliance with > one of the big market players. We have not seen this happen so > far. If nothing drastic happens, it will still be a small > alternative, but maybe still technically the best. I think the 'problem' with qooxdoo is, that it is primarily an in-house tool of 1&1 Internet. They use it for their internal software development and are thus spending a lot of money on people working exclusively on developing, maintaining and testing the system. And since 1&1 is heavily invested in qooxdoo it is also not likely to 'just go away'. Lucky for us they also choose to make the whole thing open source under a very liberal license ... Based on this, everything makes sense: the excellent developer documentation, the intense testing, the release schedule ... but also the lack of investment in external promotion or website design. All the talk about what 'should' be done on the ML will in all likelihood not result in any action from the core team as they are not a group of volunteers but employees of 1&1 who spend their time working on the tasks important to their employer. If you are in PR or web design or are willing to pay for someone to come up with pretty templates, and maybe even additional themes. I guess the qooxdoo core team would not be fighting you :-) Especially if you talk to them about your intentions beforehand. What if every company using qooxdoo for their own application development made a point of spending 2% of their development budget on improving qooxdoo publicly. Through contributions, promotion, design. Put your money where your mouth is! cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch [email protected] ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Automate Storage Tiering Simply Optimize IT performance and efficiency through flexible, powerful, automated storage tiering capabilities. View this brief to learn how you can reduce costs and improve performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
