I agree. Though we absolutely should make the best framework possible, and continue to improve it, the genius of the Smalltalk and Seaside community really lies with what we /do/ with it, the kind of projects we can code.
(And the world does not need another Facebook :) I can't believe those guys got that much funding for a replacement. It reminds me of Groupon, which is valuated in more than a billion dollars, has first mover advantage, but there is now more than 12 /funded/ startups that are Groupon clones, that are trying to oust it (and I don't think will be successful)). On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]> wrote: > In all of that is a comment that there are already multiple social networking > systems available. It brings up a few questions, including whether another > one is really needed? It sounds like a few college kids managed to raise > some real money to fund something (aka "buy the beer") that one or two of > their peers might do for a senior design project. > > Let's say I read it wrong and there is a big void waiting to be filled. It > would be interesting to see how Seaside would stack up against the > alternatives. Interestingly, I was reading on that topic earlier today. > > In my more cynical moments, I think the way for Smalltalkers to succeed is to > use it to do things under the radar, leaving the competition wondering what > hit them. I would not recommend spending time to write a framework or even a > turn-key system in the hopes that others will use it. If there is a niche > that remains to be filled and you want to be the service provider and Seaside > is up to the load that you would hope would result from getting it right, > then go for it. > > Bill > > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Torsten Bergmann > [[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 5:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Pharo-project] thinking about a community model of funding > >>I would like to see a model like that around the pharo virtual machine >>>emerging >> http://phk.freebsd.dk/VML/ > > Do you know this new funding platform: > > http://www.kickstarter.com > > There is also an interesting story with that: some guys > announced there they wanted to write a "Facebook" replacement > called "diaspora" that is open and better in privacy things: > > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr > > Interesting enough they got LOTs of money @kickstarter and then they > started coding - in Ruby on Rails. Looks like they got stuck > due to development problems after they released the source code: > > http://mashable.com/2010/09/16/diaspora-source/ > > Maybe they should have used Seaside ... > > Should we spend some spare time to write a Facebook II using > Pharo and Seaside 3.0? Then we would have a killer app and > more people interested ;) > > Bye > T. > -- > GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 Euro/mtl.! Jetzt mit > gratis Handy-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl > > >
