Hello Cameron, I'm agree with you. At this point, we don't know what are robin's needs. He wants to embed an svg module inside his site and we know nothing about his site or the functionalities of this module. I asked him details about his requirements and invited him to look in my site if he can find information to fulfill his needs, but for now, no news.
He has to choose to be tied with : 1 - a company software which provides a complete solution where he can't adapt something to his own needs. I used some web printers companies and i don't see any svg tools inside. Only java or canvas. 2 - a guy using a patchwork of modules where it is not more obvious to dive to connect things if your are not aware of these modules. 3 - a guy derivating his work of an existing product, associated to a well-known open source product to fit his needs. 4 - a guy developing a new app starting from scratch. In case 1, if he wants to change something, he has to ask to the company. What is the cost for that? Nobody knows. In case 2, if there is something wrong, it will be stuck, and should wait for an hypothetic patch if the guy has not enough skills to solve the problem. In case 3, the guy normally master his own technology and could find help in the community of the well-known open source product to solve problems. If the technology is simple enough to be maintained by any developer (as a requirement), freedom is granted to robin's company. case 4, is only an option if robin's needs are simple, and here too, if the product is simple enough to be maintained by any developer (as a requirement), freedom is granted to robin's company. A median case exists between 3 and 4, and freedom is granted too to robin's company. So, we are in the classical situation of a manager who has to buy a tool. On the shelf software or tailored software? There is a risk for both. Different risks. And don't forget one thing : svg is an old technology (10 years) which is emerging right now. We will find more and more people mastering svg and more and more people wanted for anything with svg, sometime with requirements but always by people without knowledge of svg (i counted 3 posts last year). So, a new market is born! This technology is simple to acquire but it needs time to learn how to use it in different contexts. People who are here since many years are expert in their domains. My playground is printing with svg and generating php/html/javascript/svg with my own language to fulfill my needs. Am i an expert? i think i will have always something to learn (and this is why we love svg and computer sciences) but after 10 years of SVG and 20 years of computer engineering, i think i am near to be an expert in my domain, enough to give training about these subjects, that is a part of my job. Hurray for SVG and his community! Cheers Philippe Http://www.visualkit.com --- In [email protected], Cameron Laird <claird@...> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 10:20:24PM +0100, honyk wrote: > . > . > . > > > My small company is looking for a SVG developers who can create a custom > > SVG editing app to embed into our website. > > > > Personally I'd prefer selecting prepared templates. I think there is only > > small amount of creative creators on the planet willing to create something > > from the scratch in your super app. > > > > There are many web2print solutions on the web already, e.g. > > http://www.lead-print.com/de/web-to-print.php - this one you can just rent. > > > > I rather discourage anyone from relying on single person for such a crucial > > project for you future business. You'll become strongly dependent on him > > with all cons. You should also think of connection to your backoffice, > > planning & accounting systems... > . > . > . > I suspect there's a bit of confusion in this conversation. > > robin might well choose to hire someone to help select, > configure and "connect ... to [his] backoffice, planning & > accounting ..." exactly the "prepared templates" that we > know are available--but impractical for a non-programmer to > wrangle. That doesn't make him reliant on a "single > person"--certainly no more so than with some of the atrocities > that have been committed by "power users" of "standard > software". > > My summary: Jan is right to note certain risks. robin should > expect to provide more detail about his requirements. I see > nothing inherently incoherent or infeasible in what robin has > presented to this point. > ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [email protected] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
