OpenEuphoria

RE: phpnuke user needed for eucommunity site

• Posted by Ray Smith <smithr at ix.net.au> Apr 18, 2003
• 449 views

Hi jordah,

Firstly,
As nice as the site looks ... what benefits does it have over the
current mailing list/recent user contributions and the IRC chat room?

IMO the current tools used are so strong there is no need for 
alternatives.

Secondly, 
people are on this mailing list because they want to use
Euphoria, not other programming languages.  I think if you said you
wanted to develop it in Euphoria (to promote the use of Euphoria) you
"might" end up with better long term support from the community.

Thirdly,
Most people have limited time working on their own projects. 
You'll also find most projects are started by one person and developed 
quite a bit before other people help.  (Not just Euphoria ALL projects).
If you put the work in for the first few months and prove to people it
has benefits over the current tools you might be able to get a few 
people to help.  If you can't prove any benefits I doubt if any
people will be in a hurry to help you.

Fourthly,
Maybe it would have been better to ask the community for "would it be
a benefit if we did ..." before jumping in and doing it, and finding 
out few people are interested.

PHP is cool (don't know anything about PHPNuke) and any experience 
you obtain by playing with it will be good for you.  Maybe after a few
months of working with it you'll find you have a small following :)

All the best,

Ray Smith
http://rays-web.com


jordah at btopenworld.com wrote:
> Check out http://logicsoft.pcplayground.com...... It is not yet complete 
> but
> you will see the potential of the site....
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Lewis" <matthewwalkerlewis at yahoo.com>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 11:27 AM
> Subject: RE: phpnuke user needed for eucommunity site
> 
> 
> > > From: jordah at btopenworld.com [mailto:jordah at btopenworld.com]
> >
> > > Maybe i over-reacted. This is because i don't want to see
> > > projects go down because of lack of support and this has
> > > happened before. I  have lost lots of friends because they
> > > have either had to migrate to another language because
> > > their views/projects/...etc were ignored by the community.
> > > Some still code in EU but you will notice how they have
> > > disappeared from this list, stopped sharing code...etc
> >
> > You also seem to have posted your follow up within about an hour of the
> > original.  It's also not clear (to me, at least) what the advantage of
> your
> > web site would be to the Eu community.  What will we be able to do there
> > that we can't do currently?  That said, I'm not sure I'd be able to help
> too
> > much (in the web development, that is)--I'm already jumping between 
> > three
> or
> > four Euphoria projects as it is.
> >
> > Matt Lewis