Now, as OES2 is released and we have some time for "the other things", I want to recall a post i made 3 months ago. And i would like to invite everyone to post his thoughts, whishes for the next months of development.
Devs: please post issues where community-members could assist you Community: please post what could be done to improve the software If we (=people involved in the iFolder project) don't communicate more, we loose so much power ! As the wiki is locked down atm to prevent the spam, i got many mails because of people not able to add their comments/additions to howto and others. Thanks for Kalis working on a new wiki-setup - keep going! Look around a bit, how the people at opensuse manage things - i think its a good example on how interaction community<->company could work. And again ... these were just my 2 cents. Sincerely yours Jan-Simon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jan-Simon Möller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jul 10, 2007 11:10 AM Subject: [Ifolder-dev] Community or not ? (related to the wiki thread) To: ifolder-dev Mailing list <[email protected]> Hi all ! My thoughts ... on the wiki-spam thread - applies to the whole iFolder "project". SRI, but it's that simple: if "Novell" want's a "Community" to do some work on a wiki, _we_ (=both) need to have the technical requirements (=good functioning wiki) and _we_ need communication (to share ideas/positions/information). I attended some of the openSUSE status meetings and i really think that's the way to go. No one wants to prevent novell from making money (ok, competitors maybe ;) ... but at least no one out of the community committed to the several projects) - so fantastic that iFolder is part of OES2 - great to have a professional solution for that. But why is there no communication ... ? The code is GPLed so that's no secret. That's more likely the integration in eDir and the management interface in OES2. I really know the team in Bangalore is busy (OES2). So don't feel blamed by my writing here. My intention is more likely to establish a good way where you (devs/novell) profit from an active community and we (community) get a fascinating piece of software in return. My thoughts about iFolder is that it's a great software, but it needs more publicity. This means more users. If they feel comfortable with it (and i've no doubt they will), this also leads to more bussiness for novell because companies then use it and need solutions for their environments. So why not create a community and use word of mouth propaganda _in addition to_ the typical marketing. So these were my 2 cent on the situation ... what are your's ? Sincerely yours Jan-Simon Möller _______________________________________________ ifolder-dev mailing list [email protected] http://forge.novell.com/mailman/listinfo/ifolder-dev
