ReactOS Version 1.0
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ReactOS Version 1.0
In the german forum was the question when version 1.0 of ReactOS will be available. I answerd that I think that this is actually known by nobody, but I think in four to five years. What's your suggestion?
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if ur looking for programmers, maybe someone should check out the people on Bitwise Messenger there is lots of people on there with programming talent. as for is they would wanna help, now thats different. i would help if i could program but i cant.
I'm currently learning ROS and windows development to enable me to jump on board.
Coming from a Linux and computer security background, I don't currently have much knowledge of Windows under the hood.
I hope to be on board by the summer.
Why am I telling you this? Because I know I'm not the only person in this position. The project should be, and is, generating interest on what appears to be an exponential rate, which should in turn attract more developers.
Well, that's my opinion anyway
Coming from a Linux and computer security background, I don't currently have much knowledge of Windows under the hood.
I hope to be on board by the summer.
Why am I telling you this? Because I know I'm not the only person in this position. The project should be, and is, generating interest on what appears to be an exponential rate, which should in turn attract more developers.
Well, that's my opinion anyway
More developers!
Talking about the need for more developers, perhaps writing open letters or requests to the regional computer magazines in the countries that we live in can create an interest for ReactOS among programmers in our countries. I guess that when anyone can intstall a network enabled ROS with a webbrowser, e-mail client and some other software in January it will create a news level the magazines would like to write about. This may draw some gifted programmers to ReactOS which may create a momentum for the whole project.
What do you think.
Perhaps it should be good to start some group for creating opinion for ReactOS, this group could create some good information broshures, advertisements, banners, some serious lobbying and much more is that a good idéa?
What do you think.
Perhaps it should be good to start some group for creating opinion for ReactOS, this group could create some good information broshures, advertisements, banners, some serious lobbying and much more is that a good idéa?
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Re: More developers!
So you're basically proposing setting up a PR/marketing department? Sounds goodJaix wrote:Talking about the need for more developers, perhaps writing open letters or requests to the regional computer magazines in the countries that we live in can create an interest for ReactOS among programmers in our countries. I guess that when anyone can intstall a network enabled ROS with a webbrowser, e-mail client and some other software in January it will create a news level the magazines would like to write about. This may draw some gifted programmers to ReactOS which may create a momentum for the whole project.
What do you think.
Perhaps it should be good to start some group for creating opinion for ReactOS, this group could create some good information broshures, advertisements, banners, some serious lobbying and much more is that a good idéa?
If some individuals (who know what they're doing) were to spend at least some time every week on organizing such efforts, it could do more for ROS in the short, and perhaps even the long term, than praying that more potential users and developers stumble over the project.
If you look at Mozilla Firefox for example, they've got an entire site and a large group of individuals devoted to what comes down to marketing this browser, and apparently with great success. Even the dead-tree newspaper I read reported on it a couple of days ago.
I don't want to sound like I'm complaining (okay, just a bit), but the current ROS site is a prime example of what's wrong with ROS in regards to PR. It does nothing to entice the average person to take a closer look at the project. There's just this stale feeling for which no activity on mailing lists is going to compensate. It's like one is looking at the average project summary page at SourceForge.net. Bland, unattractive and extremely confusing to non-technical (read: average) people.
Speaking as someone who has experience with designing websites, the current site requires a complete overhaul, to fix the many problems which also led to the current fragmentation of the main site (compatibility pages, for example).
You want people to use your work? First they must become aware of it, then you must convince them. In other words, marketing
On a sidenote, I voted 1-2 years, because I'm convinced that the potential of this project is promising enough, and that the people in charge aren't complete idiots
Re: More developers!
eZ Publish sux. However MW is making progress in this, as this forum prooves.Elledan wrote:Speaking as someone who has experience with designing websites, the current site requires a complete overhaul, to fix the many problems which also led to the current fragmentation of the main site (compatibility pages, for example).
-uniQ
Coming on, coming up, let me help ROS and I'll be able to look @ a life well used.
Hi All,
I agree the main site has room for improvement, but all the information is there, just a little fragmented.
But in general the site(s) are very good.
But my main complaint would be amount of different places to find the latest activity. Here a list of some of my reactos bookmarks in order to view latest activity [ im a lurker ]
wiki for dev documention
http://mok.lvcm.com/cgi-bin/reactos/ros ... entChanges
Dev mailing list
http://reactos.com:8080/archives/public/ros-dev/
Latest checkins
http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/ReactOS
rss - http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/ReactOS/.rss
dev blogs
http://www.reactos.com/en/reactos_user_site/blogs
Compatability / screenshots
http://reactosde.re.funpic.de/compatibility.php
what works - status
http://www.reactos.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=68
Downloads
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... up_id=6553 (offical)
http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=6553 (download stats)
http://reactos.csh-consult.dk/index.php?page=snapshots
http://php.edizains.com/
Newsletter
http://kerneltraffic.org/reactos/archives.html
Developer personal sites
http://edou4ever.free.fr/gge/reactos/Gg ... S-page.htm
http://www.volny.cz/xnavara/?M=D
Bugs
http://reactos.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi ... &ctype=csv
Im sure everyone has seen most/all of these and probably have a few more to add but thats fair bit of fragmentation when you consider there only about 10-20 active dev's / web masters on reactos project.
I may be wrong, but it should be possible to colsolidate some / all these on the main site unless there is bandwidth or legal issues.
Or is it just lack of co-ordination / time/ resourses?
slyi
I agree the main site has room for improvement, but all the information is there, just a little fragmented.
But in general the site(s) are very good.
But my main complaint would be amount of different places to find the latest activity. Here a list of some of my reactos bookmarks in order to view latest activity [ im a lurker ]
wiki for dev documention
http://mok.lvcm.com/cgi-bin/reactos/ros ... entChanges
Dev mailing list
http://reactos.com:8080/archives/public/ros-dev/
Latest checkins
http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/ReactOS
rss - http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/ReactOS/.rss
dev blogs
http://www.reactos.com/en/reactos_user_site/blogs
Compatability / screenshots
http://reactosde.re.funpic.de/compatibility.php
what works - status
http://www.reactos.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=68
Downloads
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... up_id=6553 (offical)
http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=6553 (download stats)
http://reactos.csh-consult.dk/index.php?page=snapshots
http://php.edizains.com/
Newsletter
http://kerneltraffic.org/reactos/archives.html
Developer personal sites
http://edou4ever.free.fr/gge/reactos/Gg ... S-page.htm
http://www.volny.cz/xnavara/?M=D
Bugs
http://reactos.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi ... &ctype=csv
Im sure everyone has seen most/all of these and probably have a few more to add but thats fair bit of fragmentation when you consider there only about 10-20 active dev's / web masters on reactos project.
I may be wrong, but it should be possible to colsolidate some / all these on the main site unless there is bandwidth or legal issues.
Or is it just lack of co-ordination / time/ resourses?
slyi
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