Thanks Jason, I sure saw that! With crowdsourcing plus expertise from Emgineering, we'll make actionable progress.
Take care, Matt Laurenceau Senior Community Ambassador, BMC Communities Follow me at @Matt_L Skype: matt.laurenceau On 13 sept. 2011, at 09:23, Jason Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > ** Hi Matt, > > I added a few updates. Thanks for getting this rolling. > > Jason > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Matt Laurenceau <[email protected]> > wrote: > ** I have commitment from a manager in BMC Engineering to share ideas (he > actually proposed his help while looking at ARSList - great!) > > I have drafted something to begin with. > Please check it out, and share your thoughts. > Add a Comment if you want to send a heads-up > Edit the Doc directly (yes, wikipedia-style), should you be able to make > things progress directly (for example, I asked questions where some of you > may also have the answers) > This is a great Use Case showing how powerful the Remedy Developer Community > is, I'm really excited by this 1st topic. > > Take care, Matt > Senior Community Ambassador, BMC Communities > > Follow me @Matt_L > > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Jason Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > 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 > _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ > > > > -- > > ~ Matt Laurenceau, BMC Software > Senior Community Ambassador, BMC Communities > Follow me at @Matt_L > Skype: matt.laurenceau > > _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ > > _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
