I can agree with what Eric says. Especially on government
organizations. The agencies I've worked at have pretty much have had
"roll your own" systems. A lot of the time it made for some buggy and/
or hard to test code. Just from a taxpayer's perspective I'd love to
see governments using money more efficiently.
There has been talk of educating businesses about OSS elsewhere on
this group. I think it would be nice to see some education material
for developers that would like to get started contributing to OSS
projects. I think there are a lot of people out there like me that
would like to help, but don't necessarily know where to jump in.
Thanks,
Adam Goetz
On Sep 18, 7:41 pm, Eric Hexter <
eric.hex...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would like to see the following:
>
> Break down the barriers to adoption for framework OSS projects to corporate
> and government organizations:
>
> Support development of high quality oss projects through grants and
> stipends. I think it would be more efficient to fund developers who are
> already actively committing to projects rather than throwing some staff
> developers who potentially are just floating from project to project without
> being actual users of the OSS projects.
>
> I would like to see funding put towards build server and server to host
> samples for the projects. Right now those are the things that end up coming
> out of the pocket of the people running the projects.
>
> I like the idea of helping pull together existing content that is out there
> and more importantly filtering out old information.
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Ayende Rahien <
aye...@ayende.com> wrote:
> > Who maintains that?
>
> > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Bil Simser <
emai...@bilsimser.com> wrote:
>
> >> Sorry, don’t agree. If we have hundreds of resources out there why are
> >> people walking around scratching their heads when they want to get started
> >> or find resources? They don’t have good Google skills? I’m tired of Google
> >> being the answer to everything. If that’s the case, then the CPF can be
> >> represented by a big blank page with a search box on it (and you might as
> >> well put an eight ball next to it for a submit button).
>
> >> *From:*
codeplex-...@googlegroups.com [mailto:
> >>
codeplex-...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Jay R. Wren
> >> *Sent:* September-18-09 10:32 AM
> >> *To:*
codeplex-...@googlegroups.com
> >> *Subject:* Re: What do oss developers want from the CPF?
>
> >> I feel like I'm approaching dischord with respect to CPF :)
>
> >> I totally disagree. The last thing we need is another .NET (or non-.net)
> >> OSS aggregate site. We have dozens if not hundreds of them. Everything is
> >> very easy to find if you know the right thing to google.
>
> >> So that said, we need to figure out a way to increase information literacy
> >> among all developers. Why is it that you and I know just want to google to
> >> find pretty much exactly what we are looking for in the developer world, but
> >> other devs do not? Let find that and spread that information. Google driven
> >> development is a good thing to some extent.
>
> >> --
> >> Jay R. Wren
>
> >> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Jeremy D. Miller <
> >>
jeremydmil...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >> Or merely a well organized portal into the docs, samples, and screencasts
> >> that do already exist. I think there's a lot more resources for OSS
> >> development our there than the average team realizes. Having that stuff
> >> categorized and linked from a de facto Microsoft site could help a lot of
> >> teams out.
>
> >> Jeremy D. Miller
> >> The Shade Tree Developer <
http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller>
> >>
jeremydmil...@yahoo.com
>
> >> ------------------------------
>
> >> *From:* Daniel Cazzulino <
k...@clariusconsulting.net>
> >> *To:*
codeplex-...@googlegroups.com
> >> *Sent:* Friday, September 18, 2009 11:06:49 AM
> >> *Subject:* Re: What do oss developers want from the CPF?