On 2012-03-27, at 12:53 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: > Ok, so this is the list of the most voted "in" ideas on Google Moderator. Any > opinions on this? > > "We should write a Beginner Book that we can either give away for free and > paid by the funds we raise by the membership fees and donations. An > alternative would be to use the funds to paid in advance the authors and the > revenues would go to community." > > I agree that a book would be nice, but I don't think it can be "profitable".
I think I can guarantee you that it won't be profitable. > Let's say it takes 12 weeks for one guy to write it, IIRC, we spent about 120 hours per chapter for Practical WebObjects. > at 30 hours per week, $50 per hour. That means writing the book would cost > $18 000, and let's say each sale of the book brings $10 (after Apple/Amazon > cuts). We would need to sell 1800 copies of it. I think Chuck sold 3000 > copies of his book, but that was in the "good old days", when the community > was bigger (and that Apple was using the same version of WO as us, so they > wanted the book too), I don't think we will sell enough copies, but I see the > book as a marketing book, so the community should pay a part of it. Our book was a marketing book too, it never even came close to covering our base costs in sales. > "Better integration between WO and iOS/Android can be a big selling point and > a way to get new people on board. Maybe we could build a system where people > can upload their CoreData model and we convert it to a EOModel and generate a > ERRest template." > > Someone also suggested support for SQLite for Titanium. > > "We should build a slick and dead simple landing page with awesome UX. It > should have one goal of funneling switchers to installing tools and launching > Hello World. We should then optimize this landing page to death via A/B > tests. After building an awesome landing page, we should produce a series of > killer screencasts showcasing selling points of WO and try link baiting on > Hacker News, etc." > > I have to agree with that, but who's going to do the screencasts? Or the dead slick pages. It also seems a little misleading to get people in like that when what we after that is not very complete. > "Improvements on the development and deployment tools to make them easier to > work it. Make WOLips an Eclipse RCP app that will also install WO and Wonder, > with built-in tutorials and help." > > Again, I agree. The tools is a top 3 priority. > > "Since we will have a 3 days boot camp before WOWODC, we should record it, > sell the recordings and give a majority of the revenues to Paul and keeping a > minority as funds for the community." > > Should we do this instead of the beginner book? Or maybe a mix of both, e.g. > the book in ePub with links to the relevant parts of the recording? Paul may have something to say about that. :-) > "I think we should use the funds to pay people to fix issues that the > majority of users are having. The issues will be voted by the community and > the most voted issues will become the highest priorities." That is not how Wonder was created and now how I expect that it will continue. If you have a problem, learn how to fix it. Then put it in Wonder. Chuck -- Chuck Hill Senior Consultant / VP Development Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their overall knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific problems. http://www.global-village.net/gvc/practical_webobjects
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