I'd like to share with the community a comment made by someone at AOL: || My problems with AOLserver are: || || 1) The lack of documentation, which is annoying, but could be fixed. || || 2) The tiny userbase, which [AOL] simply can't fix. Not unless AOL || puts 10 times more support into the product than they ever have in || the past and that's not gonna happen.
I know that the sad state of the documentation has been a big problem for a long time. I'd really like to hear suggestions from everyone as to how we might go about solving it. Does it all have to be written by one or two people? Can the work be distributed? Where do we start? Should we take the old documentation and just freshen it up? Do we need to start with a new draft Table of Contents and start over? What is keeping folks from contributing (time, expertise, money, something else)? What format do folks want: dead tree books, online e-books, both, something else entirely? With respect to the size of the community, what can we do to grow it? We definitely need more evangelism: marketing, communication with the press, white papers, etc. Do folks in the AOLserver community attend trade shows and conferences? Which ones? Do you tell folks about AOLserver? Why or why not? If you have a commercial product built on top of AOLserver, do your customers know this? Do you mention the existence of this community to them? If not, why not? I realize there are folks located all around the world, but if I organized it, would folks be willing to travel for an AOLserver Conference? Where would people want to attend it (excluding obvious destinations like "Hawaii" and "on a cruise ship" that may be slightly out of our reach right now, :-)? Would anyone be willing to volunteer to help organize it? Even if we can't achieve it, I'd like everyone to help put together a plan and the roadmap for AOLserver into 2007. Not just development milestones and features, but all of the project's activities that we want to try and accomplish. I'm far from ready to give up on AOLserver and I'm reaching out to everyone to say ... if ever you wanted to help, now is the time. Share your thoughts and I think together, we can all make this happen. -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) -- 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.
