Joe, you nailed it (although I did get Jennifer's joke too). There are so
many communities where you can download code/functions/scripts/etc for other
languages but there isn't one for Remedy; well it is there just not actively
used in this manner. There are a few apps/utilities on the BMCDN but not as
many as I think a lot of us would like to see.
Now to be perfectly honest, I have a few utilities that I have been meaning
to post to the BMCDN for a few years now (the data export one is sad without
runmacro.exe). We have seen arswiki.org come and go. Axton provided the
site for years and there just wasn't enough involvement to keep the site up
(I am guilty too).
I am fearful that the same will happen with ARInside. I see John making
updates when he has some time but can it survive as a one or two person
project? Personally I would love to help out and even installed a compiler
a while back to work on my limited C++ skills. Years, work, new laptop
without compiler, and grade school aged kids later I still have not
contributed any code to the project.
Don't get me wrong, always having sanctioned/paid work (and a family) that
pushes aside community projects is not a bad problem to have.
- Is it that we are all just too busy?
- Is it a ratio thing in that we are such a small community compared to
Java/C++/HTML/PowerShell/<insert platform of choice> communities that we
just don't have enough people to contribute a decent volume of projects?
- Is it that we cannot share what we build because it was done on
somebody else's time/system?
- Would it help if there was an AR MSDN like subscription that we have
been asking for for a few years?
- I think this is related to the somebody else's time/system question.
I know I can't afford to develop AR Applications without my employer's
resources (servers, support contract).
- Now with today's virtualization, hosted technologies and the Suite
Stack Installer it would be easier than ever to provide this resource.
Maybe a downloadable VM appliance (ADDM anybody?). I
understand there are
licensing issues with distributing other companies' software (Windows/MS
SQL/Oracle). Maybe it is time for a MySQL version of AR? :)
Hopefully now that we have a Community Ambassador we can get some of these
things moving. ;-)
Jason
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