Fork the language and call it something different. Between Railo and OpenBD fix all of the strange ideas added to the language by Macromedia and Adobe. Not one wants to program in Pascal but people are writing cool stuff in Delphi (which is a flavor of Pascal). They just don't call it Pascal. The marketing world is full of ideas like this, repackage it and it sales again.
Andrew Penhorwood
Friday, February 11, 2011, 3:19:49 PM, you wrote:
| ditto! But I'd like to see some brainstorming on concrete steps we might take to do this. Some ideas off the top of my head: -regular hackfests of applications for donation to cities, states and government in general (Open Source for the "Civic Stack") -Ready2Run CFML installs bundled with educational currucula and a learning demo site targeted at high school computer science students -obviously more conferences like OpenCFSummit - perhaps regional breakout conferences -more outreach to government. Im at a conference right now at state dept on open source software and someone just said: "This conflict between Open Source and Commercial software is a red herring. It's not about Open Source versus Commercial at all. It's just about reminding IT managers of their obligation to taxpayers to allow the two to compete on a level playing field." And I know there are very few managers of CF shops in government that are aware there are alternatives to the Adobe ColdFusion engine. -a killer app to really bring attention to the language (I think Im going to grab a pecha kucha session to pitch one :) But mostly I'm coming to hang with the smartest people I know. Oh also wanted to point out there are now 8 really inspiring speaker interviews: http://blog.opencfsummit.org/tag/speakers And the proposals and topic suggestions should give you a good idea of what people want to talk about: http://engage.opencfsummit.org/index.cfm/proposals/ http://engage.opencfsummit.org/index.cfm/topicSuggestions/ And everyone should be thinking about things they'd like to talk about in the unconferences and pecha kucha sessions! -Jason On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:03 PM, James Milbery <[email protected]> wrote: Alan, Interested in how we change the perceptions of CFML as a framework/language. Fighting the perception that "Ruby on Rails" and "PHP" are the new "standards". \jm On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Alan Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: We are now down to just a matter of days till the big event in Texas. I was interested to know who would be attending and what you are looking to get out of it (i know Matt/Peter/Jeff/Sean will be there at least and their reasons!) -- aw2.0 http://www.aw20.co.uk/ -- tag/function ref: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en Get to Texas in Feb for OpenCFSummit http://www.opencfsummit.org/ -- tag/function ref: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en Get to Texas in Feb for OpenCFSummit http://www.opencfsummit.org/ -- tag/function ref: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en Get to Texas in Feb for OpenCFSummit http://www.opencfsummit.org/ |
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