Hi Martin >> It is true that users can take initiative to promote the framework, though >> it is limited as the user community has been limited by the closeness of the >> core team. I can see some places that users of the community really speak >> well about qooxdoo. So they do... But I do see, but too little of the core >> team out there. To be stronger the community needs to be involved in a >> higher extent. This initiative can only be taken by the core team. As long >> as the core team doesn't open up the community and formerly invite community >> users and ask them for specific tasks, nothing will expand. Instead the >> community will implode even more. > Sure, it is limited in some points but I don’t see that these limitation keep > anyone from writing blog posts or giving talks about the framework. If > someone is writing about qooxdoo, we are always open to link to that post or > repost. That would be a good promotion as those posts are not opinionated.
It’s a fair comment that people in the community can help publicise Qooxdoo, but not everyone’s able to do it - my guess is that of any community, only a tiny fraction produce visible marketing/promotional materials because only a fraction have the skills & time to write articles as well as the outlet to post the article on. It’s also easy for an outsider to see the size of the community and the rate of messages on the mailing list and be put off; it seems that the only person from the core devs who posts on here regularly is you, and often only in response to specific issues. I very much appreciate your attention, but its clear that there is a lot going on in the dev team and we see almost none of it. For example, Qooxdoo “next” - maybe I missed something but it was a real surprise to find out about it, and that it had been around for quite some time. It would help a lot of we could see you guys and what you’re thinking - EG if you kept your internal dev discussions on an open mailing list. Even if we were not allowed to post to your mailing list, seeing what’s going on would make Qooxdoo seem much more alive and vibrant. If we, the community, have opinions on what you’re doing we can talk about it on *this* mailing list without interrupting the dev’s conversation — unless of course they chose to get involved. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
