Hi XForms dudes!
Are you happy loosing your time writing XForms by hand?
Do you like to sped long hours looking for errors in your handcrafted XForms?
Do you think is good for XForms that newcomers cry trying to write XForms by
hand?
Do you believe is fair that giant corporations with the money to create a
designer completely ignore XForms in favor of their own "standards"? (yes MS,
I'm talking about InfoPath)
Are you rich enough to pay for a commercial product to do the same that XForms
do? (now it's with you Altova)
Well men, now you have the opportunity to help in the creation of an Open
Source XForms Designer that most of you will find useful.
Come on! Check the Steve's project http://pozible.com/formswizard
You don't have to pledge thousands (but you can if you wish) With just few
dollars of everyone of us this can be done.
Or ..... if you think it's a bad idea, just send your reasons here (although
your bucks are more useful ;-)
Peace,
Bill
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De: [email protected]
Enviado: martes, 02 de julio de 2013 01:20 a.m.
Para: [email protected]
Asunto: [Xsltforms-support] Forms Wizard project live on Pozible crowd-funding
site.
Hello XSLTForms users (and XForms users generally).
I am seeking support for an project to build an 'Schema Generated Forms'
framework that I've been developing as a hobby for a year.
The project is called 'Forms Wizard' and can be viewed
here<http://www.pozible.com/project/27074>.
The previously completed work is based on XSLTForms and is available
here<http://sourceforge.net/projects/schema2xforms>.
The project I am hoping to crowd-fund aims to both complete the current
proof-of-concept schema designer and forms generation framework, but also to
look at extending the functionality considerably. Adding a more graphical
design interface to the existing XForm based one.
Trying a project on Pozible.com is an experiment in adding what I think is
currently an important missing aspect to open-source development. Which is the
opportunity for software users to be more actively engaged in all aspects of
projects from the start, both in sharing the costs and contributing to the
outcomes. I have written about this
here<http://www.collinta.com.au/why_foss.xml>
What has been done so far is quite advanced, quite complex XForms can be
generated. But in terms of the Pozible project I am directing people to a
simple demo I have created
here<http://forms.collinta.com.au/designer_simple.xml>.
If you have any interest in this project please register and add your
questions or comments at the Pozible project page.
The key with crowd-funding is to make as many people aware of your project as
possible, to make it 'go-viral'. I am asking you to help me in this, in the
manner of your choice.
To clarify one aspect of the project's 'pledges', there are two pledges
available for AU$2000 each, these, if pledged, and if the project reaches its
funding goal of AU$8000 will enable me to go to the Balisage 2013 markup
conference in Montreal in August. We have been asked to present a
"late-breaking" talk there on the work done so far and its extension, in Forms
Wizard or otherwise. I presently cannot make it to Balisage for financial
reasons and the opportunity came along after deciding to do this Pozible
effort, so it seems a good idea to tack it on, just to see!. I am hoping, not
promising, that the project will exceed its funding target of AU$8000 by the
2xAU$2000 pledges (making AU$12000 total) to allow me to go to Balisage 2013
and to see the planned work completed 'in comfort'. Unfortunately setting the
higher target of AU$12000 might lead to no money being available as its an
all-or-nothing situation, you have to reach the target in the time-span set at
the start or you get nothing.
We are writing the Balisage paper presently and it will be presented either
way, but the opportunity is a great one for me. So, if you are interested in
supporting this travel opportunity via Pozible or by contacting me directly
please do. Apologies to those who are offended by such blantant begging, but
frankly, opportunities to work on XML technologies in my part of the world are
unfortunately rare.
Sincerely
Steve Cameron
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