Mike and Paul and I met Friday night and had a great time over some nice food and a
tasty Octoberfest beer from Left-hand brewing company. We never did figure out who owes
whom how many beers, an issue that must be deferred until our next meeting.
We did talk a bit about some OSG stuff.
One of the things we discussed was how to best contribute to the OSG community and
further everyone's use of OSG.
We each have our own ideas of what sorts of things might benefit OSG, and which it
might need most. I personally would like to hear some input from other OSG users about
what they think OSG most needs at this point. I'm not in a position to promise anything,
but the first step to resolving a deficiency is to identify it.
While I have my own coding wishes, they're ones that mostly just concern me
(probably).
What I do feel like OSG really could use is more community, more evangelism, more
promotion. OSG seems to be one of the best, best-kept secrets out there. We who use it all
know it's phenomenal, but not enough people seem to know it.
I don't have great suggestions for how to address this, as my own company suffers the
same problem -- our users are mostly 9-to-5 professionals who don't get all fanatical
about what our product does for them. It just gets the job done. I've always admired what
Steve Jobs has been able to do with Apple's evangelism -- get your users to promote your
product for you, and then bask in their adoration. ;)
I'd like to hear you idea about what OSG needs. If you want to talk about evangelism,
we'll start a different thread for that.
--
Chris 'Xenon' Hanson aka Eric Hammil | http://www.3DNature.com/ eric at logrus
"I set the wheels in motion, turn up all the machines, activate the programs,
and run behind the scenes. I set the clouds in motion, turn up light and
sound,
activate the window, and watch the world go 'round." -Prime Mover, Rush.
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