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Alan Calder  
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 More options 26 Mar 2007, 14:53
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.apps
From: Alan Calder <alan_cal...@orpheusmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:53:30 +0100
Local: Mon 26 Mar 2007 14:53
Subject: Re: Future of Risc OS
In article <ViB*Ri...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Theo Markettos

<theom+n...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Nigel Willmott <nwillm...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > But picking up from what Theo has said about using the Wiki - is it
> > possible to extend that to development, so that for instance
> > developers could put up what their current projects are and what they
> > might be interested in ... and users could (hopefully sensibly)
> > register their willingness to support development in financial or
> > other terms. Maybe more communication via a central clearing house
> > like that could foster some worthwhile collaborations and help speed
> > up some developments.
> Yes, definitely.  There's already a wiki page regarding projects wanting
> developers: http://www.riscos.info/index.php/Developer_help_wanted If
> other people feel they've got something they can contribute, by all
> means create a page, let's call it 'Help offered' with details.
> Here we go, I've just created something:
> http://www.riscos.info/index.php/Help_offered So you can add yourself to
> that.

This is a useful thing to have done, Theo.  Hopefully it will lead on to
more.

Two things come to mind.

There is a need to get it more widely known than just on the rather obscure
wiki.  A link is needed from all the other RO info sites - hopefully they
will pick it up.  Ditto the remaining RO publications - I know John
Cartmell reads here so that's Quercus covered.  Paul Vigay can pass it on
to RISC OS Now. What about Archive?

Then there is what sort of help is really needed.  For non-developers ( or
me at least) it is hard to guess what useful help could be given.  Cash is
obvious, probably, but then what?  Is there anybody who could put together
some suggestions of what might really be helpful?

Cheers

Alan

--
Alan Calder, Milton Keynes, UK.


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