Mecki Thats why the board launched the Incubator project early this year. The intent is for this to become a repository of useful working examples of using the technology. But I don't have the time to write those all myself and we have been trying to pursuade the community to get involved.
Brian Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad Mecki Foerthmann <[email protected]> wrote: >I think a major problem is the lack of training/documentation. >Great that there are all these new possibilities, but if you have to >figure everything out yourself it becomes very difficult to keep up with >the technology. >A lot of VARs (especially ours) are no help if you get the feeling they >know even less then you do. >It is very frustrating if the business asks, 'can we do that?' and you >can only answer, 'yes, I know it's possible but I don't know how to make >it work.' >And how am I to show the young guys all the flash things I have seen in >demos or heard about here if I can't get them to work myself? > >On 17/11/2011 20:55, David Jordan wrote: >> The U2UG board has been discussing with Rocket how to encourage excitement >> that U2 is not legacy but is a technology leader. I was at a presentation >> of a U2 VAR and they demonstrated product that would be indistinguishable >> from any other player in open systems, Service architecture, >> interoperability, web intefaces, etc. How do we get this across to the >> market. >> >> With collaboration, we need to first excite. How do we excite people in U2 >> technology. Is it looking at a major enhancement of the BASIC programming >> language or a new one within U2. What other things do we look at. >> >> Currently young programmers are excited by web technology's, mobile apps, >> the sexy stuff. They are not interested in the backend, whether Oracle >> RDBMS, SQL Server or U2. This is a problem across the industry. >> >> The board of the user group are interested in areas to look at and how to >> create infrastructure to make this happen. If we can reignite excitement >> in the product and create a place for collaboration where that excitement >> can be put to good use then I believe we can achieve success. However our >> success depends on a group of people not a few individuals. If this is to >> occur, it is time for people to become involved in shaping a future. >> >> Regards >> David Jordan >> VP U2UG >> _______________________________________________ >> U2-Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >_______________________________________________ >U2-Users mailing list >[email protected] >http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
