On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Hasanuddin Tamir wrote:
> 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.
See my other post in this thread. There are places, but if you know about
them, how do you make others know about them? Run a simple test and ask a
few of your Perl programmers about this? Do they know?
> > > 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.
but your situation is different. You already know that you want to release
your code and now you *only* have to find how :) I'm talking about talking
to those who *don't* know yet. Think of it as being a missioner.
> > 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.
The more the merrier.
> I still don't know if my company can do it to other company, but
> personally I can.
And you should, if you care. I know you do.
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