On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Hasanuddin Tamir wrote:
>
> > Your idea. I'd like to know how that will be done.
>
> remember this isn't not a concrete plan, just an idea. So I'm not sure
> if anything will be done. I thought that this is the list where we can
> discuss ideas like that and see if can come up with some real plan, and
> may be even do something about it.
But if it's merely to help the company's Perl people, there's already
a bunch of places to do so.
> > We have internal tool for web application development. There's some
> > effort to redesign it and formulate the way we release it to the open
> > source community. But I don't decide things, I only recommend them.
>
> that's something completely different. You are talking about convincing
> your company to release the code to the open source community. (I
> suggest that you start a new thread, or otherwise it'll be lost in the
> flood of the current thread :)
I brought it on just as an example to see how your idea will fit on
the situation like mine.
> I'm talking about educating companies about CPAN and such, for their
> internal product which they probably would never release.
>
> Basically all is needed is to make these companies aware of the forums
> where their Perl programmers can ask questions, and thus improve their
> productivity. e.g. Q: "I'm writing a wrapper around cvs, may be you know
> somebody who wrote such a wrapper already", A: "Sure, here is the link on
> cpan.org, in the future you can use search.cpan.org to find the available
> modules by yourself."
In this case, I don't know to whom we should talk to in that company.
The manager? The programmer? Well, both I guess. I still don't know
if my company can do it to other company, but personally I can.
san
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