Isn't it time those of us who still read this list started a thread to discuss (perhaps even to help design and strategize) the future of Doggiebox itself? Where is it positioned now? What further improvements are most needed? What are its prospects of generating sufficient cash flow to warrant making those and other improvements? How can current users help? etc. etc.
Please do at least signal if you agree something of the sort is needed.
-Sterling
Doggiebox has served me very well so far, and I use it a lot, but I definitely run into things that could be improved or added here and there. An automatic "humanize" feature would be great for starters, instead of tweaking velocity of hits here and there. I've played with a software drum machine that shows promise on Linux called Hydrogen (humanize is the standout feature I saw in it), but I'm still on a G5 so the Mac version of it won't work for me since it's Intel only. But honestly, I would prefer to see features like that added to Doggiebox than to switch to something else.
In any case, I'd also like to know where the software is headed. Since it's not open source, I don't know how much the community can actually contribute, but perhaps discussion will find a way to action... I'm also a software developer so I'm one community member who may be able to help dive into it if that possibility opened up (pun partially intended ;)).
Anyway, that's my $0.02
Lux
On 7/25/07, Sterling Beckwith beckwith@yorku.ca wrote:
Isn't it time those of us who still read this list started a thread to discuss (perhaps even to help design and strategize) the future of Doggiebox itself? Where is it positioned now? What further improvements are most needed? What are its prospects of generating sufficient cash flow to warrant making those and other improvements? How can current users help? etc. etc.
Please do at least signal if you agree something of the sort is needed.
-Sterling
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I'm not a programmer, but I use Open Source a lot for building websites. If Ben has moved on to oher things perhaps releasing the source could put some more life back into the old dog:) - It would be great if you, John and other developers could help out with some of these things.
Doggiebox is great as it is, and with improvements could be one of the best.
(I think Ben is still contactable since I mailed him a few months back after losing my DB licence code)
Sion Morris Liverpool
www.sionsmusic.cinnamondesign.co.uk -------------------------------------------
On 26 Jul 2007, at 04:35, John Luxford wrote:
In any case, I'd also like to know where the software is headed. Since it's not open source, I don't know how much the community can actually contribute, but perhaps discussion will find a way to action... I'm also a software developer so I'm one community member who may be able to help dive into it if that possibility opened up (pun partially intended ;)).
Anyway, that's my $0.02
Lux
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