On Monday 07 February 2005 22:13, you wrote: > Okay, this is good. So, how do we define the vision? I'm in favor of > it being a shared vision between all the constituents of the AOLserver > Community, which was my rationale behind the Steering Committee concept. > Individuals from the community speak on behalf of users they represent > and express what their needs are. Someone (most likely me) will collate > all of these needs into a cohesive vision which will guide the direction > of the project.
So far so good. > > I've already received some feedback privately from people regarding the > steering committee. I'll give everyone some time to formulate their > statements of position on various aspects of AOLserver and to send them > to me. Lets make the deadline for submissions Monday, 28 Feb 2005. I > will aim to have an initial draft of the project vision/plan done by > Wednesday, 16 Mar 2005. Even better. > > To be clear about this, I am not simply going to collate everyone's > responses together. I will be looking for common themes amongst all the > responses so that the most people benefit from the improvements that we > make in 2005. If something you expressed interest in doesn't make it > into the first plan, it's because there wasn't enough interest or > support for that particular aspect. I will do my best to be fair and > impartial about this. Seems fair. I assume you will be putting responses bypassing this public list in some place where everybody can see them, right? > > I also want to remind folks that simply stating a desire for a feature > doesn't put much weight on it. Describing how the feature would fit > into a real application that you are either building and/or will build > gives it more weight. This prevents people from "asking for the moon" > and better serves those who are building products which rely on > AOLserver as an underlying technology in the stack. > This sounds reasonable. > > And current AS users is what this project has now. Instead of getting > > new ones in, how about activating already present people (there are > > quite a few of them listed in SF as developers)? > > This is why I created the different Project Teams. I'm hoping more > people commit to signing up to the various project teams and actively > participate. Understand. > > > What I appreciate about AS is its stability, Tcl integration level > > and infrastructure allowing me to write concurrent applications > > with ease. The AS speaking the http protocol is nice, but not the > > main reason why I'm using it. > > What is the main reason why you use AOLserver? > Well, I said this above, roughly. If you like, the main would be: "infrastructure allowing me to write concurrent applications with ease" Accent is: "concurrent applications" not necessarily web-biz related. Rather, a versatile swiss-army-knife plug-in-the-module-and-run type of beast. The fact it does so *nicely* marry advanced low-level socket and threading caps with Tcl makes it ideal for all sorts of things. But, as said, vision statement is important. This will clarify many things and people will know what to expect and can act accordingly. Zoran -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
