On Tuesday 19 September 2006 08:53, Richard Hosking wrote: Firstly response to Tony: I would be in, and so would be many others. We had such discussion before.
> > Does the project proceed? If at least 20 colleagues chip in $2,000 each, why not? > > What licence model? GPL, or I am out > > Target platform(s)? All POSIX compliant platforms (because they make sense) + W32 (because they dominate the market) (and no, Peter, NT is NOT fully POSIX compliant) = all current Windows versions, OS/X, and Linux/BSD/Solaris on at least ix86 and AMD64 platforms > > Does the project develop an entire application or just the core > > components with a suitable licence to encourage others to add pieces > > to it? I would envision a modular system a la Unix - small applications for well defined tasks that interoperate well. Starting with something small and functional, and extend from there. > > Core components, programming language and technologies. programming language: any that is truly cross platform, popular enough to attract a wide range of developers (easy to hire contractors), with ready-to-use open sourced modules for all common tasks (database, GUI, networking, scanning, printing, cryptography) - however, in a truly modular system with RPC APIs choice of programming language for individual modules becomes irrelevant > > Develop in Australia or India? develop *for* Australia. I made the big mistake with gnumed of wanting to make it flexible enough for multiple spoken languages and health systems. I am now paying several competent developers in Russia, Romania and Brazil (and even the US!) for small contracted modules (eg recently an appointment system widget) - they come *very* cheap, and you only pay once the specs are fulfilled > > How to make the project sustainable? by making it popular Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
