Sunday, August 11, 2002

Cory Doctorow, Glenn Fleishman and Matt Neuburg are speaking at the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, Sept 30 thru Oct 3, Santa Clara, CA. [Scripting News] I'm really hoping to figure a way to this conference. I don't exactly know how since currently our product only runs on Linux and Solaris but I'm trying to get things going on OS X as a kind of skunkworks project. Who knows, maybe I get something going soon, I can go.. 8:59:25 PM

Thinking a bit more about the post below, I would definitely contribute to a commericial product and I don't think what I would expect in return would be that tough to live with... If I were extending the functionality of the app, I would want some sort of pre-release access to builds, testing, etc... If I were using the app as an engine for another application, I would want prior knowledge of API changes as well as at least a rough roadmap for development.. 8:55:23 PM

Contributing to non Open Source development... would you?. One thing I wonder from reading Ev's thoughts is how Blogger manages to 'outsource' part of its development to users. Brett also brought the same ideas to mind yesterday. I've always wanted to get our users more involved in JIRA development - we have a feature list as long as my arms, and I'm sure a lot of our users are technically adept enough that they could add the feature they want in a snap. I wonder how this would work. Would users contribute to a commercial product? It's like Open Source but not. Would you? What would you want in return? Is money the only motivator? I know the Jive guys well and I don't think they get many contributions at all from people modifying their source. [rebelutionary] An interesting idea.. The problem that I see if the practical reality of how users could contribute. They would need some sort of access to either code or API's in order to be able to compile their code. Perhaps this is where gated-access to code comes into play. 12:36:54 PM

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