I posted a feedback document online<http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYWzJ6ByFTvFZGhqNmI2cGhfMjkwY2JoZ3JqZm0&hl=en>. It's not quite as dramatic as my last email. :-) It's not perfect - I'd rather be drawing.
Break rules. Don't be afraid to stray from Morphic conventions or Smalltalk conventions. Lively needs to foremost become a vector drawing application. It's familiar. It's explainable. It has immediate value and traction. Philip On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Philip Weaver <[email protected]> wrote: > I have plenty of feedback for this project. I am usually too polite - but > now my feedback will not all be positive. Some pet projects need to be > killed. Some need to be excluded. Some aspects need to be modernized. As a > whole the core project UI needs to be reworked and polished. This is > probably extremely hard to justify inside an academic environment. The > overall message of Lively (and video demos) needs work. This project has the > potential to change the world. If I hurt anyone please just suck it up. I am > angry at this situation of few contributors and no funding. > > The Lively Kernel project has been public for over two and half years. In > April of this year I had to nag to create a Wikipedia page for the project. > Dan mentioned the Sencha project in a recent email. The fact that they are > now a competitor to this project and recently acquired 14 million dollars > set me off. I am angry - but not at anyone in particular. If no one is > exploring any degree of funding to help propel this project or derivatives > then that is a great tragedy. Non-profit or commercial - still a great > tragedy. Equally, the fact that Lively is not spreading to other > institutions is also a tragedy. > > I recently did some mockups <http://tinyurl.com/lively-mockups/> for > Lively in Google Drawings instead of the wiki. Jens sent an email reminding > the 98 mailing list subscribers to remember to use the wiki. I have been the > most active external user of the Lively wiki - however that was last spring. > The wiki is one of the coolest aspects of this project. I am not currently > using Lively or the wiki much due to extremely inadequate hardware. Due to > the level of my own personal standards of quality, drawing in the wiki is > going to completely frustrate me. The problem of few using the wiki needs to > be solved. Polish the UI. Find more users beyond the 98 on the mailing list. > Find funding. > > So I have more feedback coming. I'll try to be kind. I am angry. Suck it > up. >
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