> On Jul 13, 2016, at 10:35 AM, Chuck Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here is my brief take on what defines the community. > > Many of us got started with WO before anyone came along and told us that we > should not want a coherent, consistent, end-to-end stack that mostly “just > worked”.
> ... > > We know how good things can be and we are not willing to settle for less. > That is what defines us. That is why we are still here. While some of us, > like Andrus, have gone away and re-created part of the goodness and added > some new goodness, we are still all influenced by what we witnessed and > worked with. > > > Chuck > Just to grab some continuity, that's what held the Simula community (ASU) together for a long time, (btw, also voted most common characteristic was love of fine beer) <ahem>. I actually can imagine that SimDBM, a multi-stack BTree to object space package, as the predecessor to EOModeler. I gave too much away in attempting to use Java, even before WO, to independently embrace it, and it was M$ that dropping Java that precipitated this gradual decline. Listening in with best wishes, Baiss > From: <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> on > behalf of Pascal Robert <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Monday, July 11, 2016 at 6:14 PM > To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Summary of the State of the Community > > Dear members of the WO Community, > > At WOWODC 2016, we had many discussions about the future of the community. We > also saw many tools to get forward. But before moving forward on the > technical side, many attendees made a point: we should find out what unites > us. Is this only because of WebObjects, or because we use WebObjects and > Wonder for rapid development? Or because most of you are small teams and are > doing full-stack development? > > So, before we decide to replace, or not, the tool stack, we want to know what > defines the community and we want for feedback about this. > > As for the current operations, the WOCommunity Association still stay up at > least until January 24th 2017. We have enough money to pay for the hosting > and the store for the remaining of the year. We can also save some money by > moving some of the podcasts to mirrors and by running Jenkins elsewhere, or > maybe everything. If you want to host some of the podcasts (the older ones) > or host Jenkins, please notify me. > > You can listen to the talk here: > > http://wocommunity.org/podcasts/wowodc/2016/State_of_the_Community.mp4 > <http://wocommunity.org/podcasts/wowodc/2016/State_of_the_Community.mp4> > http://wocommunity.org/podcasts/wowodc/2016/State_of_the_Community_Followup.mp4 > > <http://wocommunity.org/podcasts/wowodc/2016/State_of_the_Community_Followup.mp4> > > Also, Samuel Pelletier created a Slack channel to discuss the state of > things, send an email to him or me if you wish to join the channel. > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________
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