Unified Revolution

[Brian Yennie]

Dear Rev-carders,

It's been bugging me for quite some time that the Rev/MetaCard 
community lacks central resources. As fantastic as the discussion lists 
are (and they are good ones), there's no one way to find an answer, 
obtain an external, submit something you wrote, etc, etc. A few list 
members have taken the time to provide resources online- Ken and 
Richard for starters have excellent stuff available on their sites. I, 
for one, do not, simply because I don't have the time to create a site 
just for that purpose.

So here's the question: how can we, as the user base for Rev/Metacard, 
create a central resource that serves all of us, promotes development 
of useful resources, and brings glory to RunRev?

What I would really love to see is an open source project that 
incorporates several things at once:

1) The now open-source Metacard IDE and any other alternative IDEs 
(i.e. FreeCard)

2) Open-source externals (i.e. custom controls, movie editing, etc)

3) Open-source plugins (i.e. RevNet)

4) Open-source stacks, widgets & scripts (i.e. libSMTP, libURL, etc)

The LAST thing I would want this to be would be a free-for-all. We 
would need people to take on roles in managing these projects. Projects 
would have to be approved, and code would have to be submitted. All of 
the best practices of other open source projects would potentially 
apply.

Would anyone else like to see this kind of organized effort? Who could 
actually contribute to running the entity (as opposed to submitting 
code)?

Would we elect a board? Would this make a difference?


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Brian Yennie
Chief Technology Officer
QLD Learning, LLC
(904)-997-0212
briany at qldlearning.com
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