So, I thought what the original poster was getting at was: 1) Create a documentation/wiki/example site 2) Make it searchable 3) Have useful examples that make sense to everyone 4) Also post the vendor/var docs 5) Collaborate on ideas (like we do here)
Maybe you guys are talking about something else... Github, svn, cvs, PRC and all those are great tools, but, they probably aren't going to create the "Wikipedia" of the MV world. The above can be done, but, it needs to become a living/breathing thing that gets updated a lot, otherwise, folks won't use it. Hence the challenge- making it a living/breathing thing. I know this kind of thing has been tried, and is being tried... but there probably isn't enough flag waving and marketing to keep it going. Or people create something, and try to make it subscription based, which in this day and time is never going to work with something like the above. Some of the things I know about are: http://www.nuwiki.com/cgi-bin/nuwiki.cgi?home&project=nuwiki http://www.keyally.com/prdb/universe/basic_tree_all.html http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl Anyway, I'd like to help with something like that. I'm just not sure at my stage in life, that I have the time to spearhead it and become the chief "Architect" of something like that. On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Wjhonson <wjhon...@aol.com> wrote: > > Personally I respond more immediately when something comes at me. > Would it not be possible to set up a mailing list for any changes to > Incubator code? So all users on that list get emailed when a change is > made? > I think this would propel both use of the code, and <s>misuse</s> > enhancement. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Leach <br...@brianleach.co.uk> > To: U2 Users List <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> > Sent: Thu, Nov 17, 2011 2:55 pm > Subject: Re: [U2] Code Collaboration > > > Mecki > Thats why the board launched the Incubator project early this year. The > intent > s for this to become a repository of useful working examples of using the > echnology. But I don't have the time to write those all myself and we have > been > rying to pursuade the community to get involved. > Brian > ent from my ASUS Eee Pad > Mecki Foerthmann <mec...@gmx.net> 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 > hat U2 is not legacy but is a technology leader. I was at a presentation > of a > 2 VAR and they demonstrated product that would be indistinguishable from > any > ther player in open systems, Service architecture, interoperability, web > ntefaces, etc. How do we get this across to the market. > > > > With collaboration, we need to first excite. How do we excite people > in U2 > echnology. Is it looking at a major enhancement of the BASIC programming > anguage 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 > exy stuff. They are not interested in the backend, whether Oracle RDBMS, > SQL > erver 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 > reate infrastructure to make this happen. If we can reignite excitement > in > he product and create a place for collaboration where that excitement can > be > ut to good use then I believe we can achieve success. However our success > epends on a group of people not a few individuals. If this is to occur, > it is > ime for people to become involved in shaping a future. > > > > Regards > > David Jordan > > VP U2UG > > _______________________________________________ > > U2-Users mailing list > > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > ______________________________________________ > 2-Users mailing list > 2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org > ttp://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- John Thompson _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
