Note: I am going to reply in parts so I can keep the discussion separated. Dirk Reiners wrote:
>[snip] > > >So IMHO a lot of it boils down to marketing. Which is important, but not >a panacea. I'm not as worried as Allen is, but I agree that on an >exponential curve being a little behind makes a big difference. > >So to answer your question: my goal for OpenSG is to be the best >scenegraph I can help make it. Having said that: it's not my day job to >do that. Being a professor gives me quite a bit of flexibility in how I >spend my time, but not being tenured puts some pretty serious pressure >on how to spend it. So right now I'm spending more than I should but not >enough to pull it all out of the swamp. > > How will we measure "best"? (best technically, most users, largest community, most advanced features, fastest, ...) I hope you don't mean only technically because to be rather blunt about it, being the best doesn't make a difference if no one uses it and extends it. I don't think the sky is falling but the the "curve" isn't as steep as I would like to see it. >As such, it is hard to define a roadmap, as it is not clear how much >time to expect from who to get things done (myself included). We all do >this as our paying commitments allow. I know there are things that I >want, and we've made some good progress on those, but defining '2.0 will >have this and that and the other thing' is something I struggle with. >I'd be happy to get input, though (please mention how much time you'd be >willing to invest ;). Being able to work full-time on OpenSG would be >nice, but I don't see a way to do that. Robert and Don were very brave >to take this plunge, I'm just not that brave. > > Has anyone in the OpenSG community taken this leap and started making using and supporting OpenSG their day job? Is anyone interested in doing this? If anyone is interested please let me know. To help you get going I would be willing to do everything I can to hire you part time to get things off the ground and to continue directing business your way to keep things sustained. >I do agree that we have been notoriously bad about marketing what we >have. Honestly most of it is because many things are not fully done yet, > "Release early, release often." it really can work... I think the corollary is to release demos and news early, often, and continually. -Allen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Opensg-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensg-users
