On Tue, 2006-15-08 at 00:15 -0700, John Q. wrote:
There are many pros and cons for #1 and it looks like
this is a pretty
healthy debate to which I'm not qualified to add anything. However, I
can definitely shed some light on #2.
John, you did a great job on explaining; thanks a lot.
One thing I do want to clear up is that
we're not "being paid" to do this... we have *plenty* of other stuff on
our to-do lists. This is a really interesting project so we decided
to volunteer some time for it... same with SocialText and good for them
to throw in code they'd already written.
I think I was the one who mentioned payment. I hope it didn't sound
disparaging -- that wasn't my intention. Rather, I wanted to point out
that the project had momentum since Wikia and SocialText were allocating
the time of their professional programmers to it.
I'm surprised to find out that Wikia and SocialText employees are
working on wikiwyg on a volunteer basis. The impression I got from
meetings with Wikia, from Jimmy's talk at Wikimania, and from the press
notices from SocialText, was that the wikiwyg project had the backing of
the two companies and that employees were applying work hours to it.
If that's not the case, I'm sorry for the error. Thanks to all the Wikia
and SocialText employees who are doing this work and to the companies
for supporting them.
~Evan
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Evan Prodromou --
http://evan.prodromou.name/
"By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart
of on the same terms." -- Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"