> Against:
> Few have heard of it, very low media profile, not much real 'news' even on
> RT, gooogle searches mostly show old 1999, 2000 links. ie hot new technology
> is pehasp not so hot...No visible uses of rebol and free opensource tools
> have taken the limelight increasingly among 'new discoveries'
>
yes, very true ... Rebol community seems to be just few hundred of active users
imo .... RT took a high risk with IOS imo - on one hand they created product
they can sell, on the other hand Rebol developers live without product update
for nearly one year already. But from IOS conference I know that Carl wants to
change it - there are two groups of Rebol users - corporate users, and, Rebol
developers. Carl wants to make technology more visible once again, and it is
good message to us all, as technology is what matters.
I am not sure what is happening with Morpheus, as their 2.0 Rebol based version
was supposed to be released at the end of last year. I hope deals like Morpheus
will help to spread the word ....
> Further:
> Even better than straight translation I would love to invite people here to
> help add some new chapters. First, extend the knowledge on /View and /VID.
> Then nwe hcapters on Rugby, Vanilla, and Flash.
>
We should probably concentrate around Rebolforces.com for quite some time. Rugby
needs decent home page, but is there actually any gfx oriented user here to
help? The truth is we need some apps, most Rebol community projects failed so
far. But we will see ...
Maybe even forming some packages/collections would help:
1) rebol network suite - anamonitor, profiler, mysql, rugby, lrwp, xml stuff,
xml-rpc ....
2) rebol game suite - there is few nice games around ....
3) rebol demo suite - old amiga days returning? :-) Well, not unless View is
improved in few aspects (right Cyphre? :-), sound capabilities extended and
unlocked ...
> Flash with REBOL could address client-side and serverside, for example with
> Oldes' %make-swf.r Flash books sell briskly {Flash with XML, PHP,MySQL
> etc}..and now that Macromedia has recently proposed to open up Flash use as
> non-browser based platform [like /View].
> Things are going to heat up. Meanwhile ever more deals:
> http://macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2002/dotnet_framework.html
> http://macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2002/motorola_flashplayer.html
> http://macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2002/nokia_mediaterminal.html
> Flash 6 looks like it will feature full interactive video conferencing and
> streaming. REBOL could play very very well with Flash.
>
Yes, Macromedia seems start to understand what the rebol's message to computing
world is. We can be smaller, maybe even better in some aspects, but we will
probably lack in multimedia field - the area most end-users are interested in.
But - we can't know, when any significant improvements to Rebol cores will be
released.....
-pekr-
>
> ./Jason
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