On 31/08/2007, Casey Durfee <casey_at_librarything.com> wrote:
> I would like to see a bounty/pledge board for open source library software.
> Libraries could pledge monetary support or staff resources towards
> particular projects or features. Pooling money together would attract more
> interest from developers outside of libraries. which would be especially
> beneficial for a project like Evergreen, which is written in programming
> languages there's not a lot of library world expertise or interest in.
Eh? Most of the code in Evergreen is Perl, which is pretty
library-world friendly (although it's also pretty heavily OO in
places, which could be perceived as unfriendly). There's some C, but
that's largely infrastructure that doesn't need to be touched by most
mortals; and then the remainder is Python (for a not-yet-primetime
configuration interface). There's some Java coming (for acquisitions
support), but there's a fair bit of that in the library world too.
That being said, I like the idea of a bounty / pledge board...
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Dan Scott
Laurentian University
Received on Fri Aug 31 2007 - 16:11:16 EDT