Re: [jl-volunteers] Important question - JLCP - Product vs. Service

[Matthew S. <ma...@ja...>]

Igor,
    The first goal is to use the software we create to run a set of 
sites in the Javalobby network.  These include the new JavaJobs, 
JCentral, GotJava (eventually), etc.  While we're doing this, we also 
want to make sure that we don't create something that is unusable to 
others.  In the Java space, I don't feel that there is something as easy 
to use for communities as say PhpNuke has in the Php+Apache sphere.  You 
are right that our first goal is to create a community that helps out 
all developers and users alike, it just happens to be a nice side effect 
that the software we are creating will fill a gap in the available 
software to the Java community as a whole.  That said, we will need to 
focus on the content of our portal site once we have developed the 
backend, as that will be just as important in the end.

Matt


Igor Stelmashenko wrote:

> Matthew, Team,
>
> I would like to bring up one question to see is there is a general 
> agreement. I think this is an important question because it impacts a 
> great deal many choices we are making plus what we are focusing on. 
> The question is: Is our main goal is to create a service(portal) that 
> our community will use or the main goal is to create a piece of 
> software that others can use on their site. IMHO, those are very 
> different goals and questions like application footprint, tier 
> architecture, easy installation and others would have different value 
> in both cases.
>
> The way I see it - we create the service first of all. Yes, our 
> software is free(beer/freedom) and anybody can take advantage it, but 
> it's the online community collaboration place/market place we are 
> really after.
>
> Cheers,
> igor
>
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