Re: Incubator Proposal Draft

2010-12-31 Thread Michael Herndon
I don't know how much of the following of the following should be included in the proposal, but its probably worth starting discussions on separate threads: *Branding/Marketing,* *Documentation, * *.Net API* *Backwards Compatibility Support * *Linq/WCF/Annotations* * * On Thu, Dec 30,

Proposal Stage: PR/Marketing/Branding

2010-12-31 Thread Michael Herndon
*PR/Marketing/Branding:* Even open source need this. Its never something totally the forefront on the developers mind, but its going to be key in order to build a community. The main part of marketing to strategically build connections between people and a product/service so that they associate a

Proposal Stage: Net Idiomatic Api Version

2010-12-31 Thread Michael Herndon
*Net Idiomatic Api Version* *We should probably be looking for with this criteria is readability getting people familiar with any new code base faster within their own Idiom. * * * Starting with a proposal that we use the internal Ms coding

Proposal Stage: Documentation

2010-12-31 Thread Michael Herndon
*Last one for the year, See ya next year Happy New Year to all.* * * *Documentation.* * * Who should be responsible for this? Where should it live? Wiki or should we have a separate site that aggregates. blogs, twitter feeds, facebook, tutorials, wiki, documentation, etc? I propose that we

Re: Proposal Stage: Net Idiomatic Api Version

2010-12-31 Thread Troy Howard
I agree with the suggestion to follow the MS Coding standard. It's a good general guideline. Specifically, I'd like to follow all guidelines put forth in the book: Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams

RE: Initial committers list for Incubator Proposal

2010-12-31 Thread Prescott Nasser
There are a number of out of the box projects that I think should be developed as we have time that will help facilitate new people getting started, be used as examples and templates, and give us some good stuff to blog about :). This all goes to the marketing/PR/Community stuff that was sent