[iks-community] Fwd: Aloha Editor is out.

[Henri Bergius]

Hi,

On 20 July 2010 15:18, Mag. Alexander Szlezak <a.szlezak at gentics.com> wrote:
> Ideed there is a common goal to reach widespread acceptance with the
> difference that IKS does not seek (or needs to seek) financial return.
> Trouble is Gentics is no foundation like Apache foundation.

Yes, which is why a community model for the editor that fits the needs
of project openness *and* the business needs of Gentics (and potential
integrators or contributing companies) must be found. Bertrand's
proposal on that was quite an appealing one.

> It would be good to test that out, and especially focus on the plugin
> question because I see the potential here (as mentioned below) to solve the
> licensing issue.

Yes. The less constraints you impose regarding the plugins, the better.

>> Xopus was a finished product when
>> they open sourced it, so it was a lot harder for others to start
>> contributing.
> I guess we made a first step, by releasing early. There's still a lot to be
> done and a lot adjustable.

Yep, it is important to release early, release often. See my related blog post:
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/open_source-free_software-what_we_need_is_open_projects/

/Henri

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