Dustin, when you figure out what your project will be, don't forget
to add a note to this page:
http://www.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOCOM/Projects+currently
+underway
janine
On Aug 27, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Dustin Withers wrote:
> Well let's hope the Thought-Police aren't breaking my door down
> later today ;)
>
> To bad though. I'll think of other ways to help document. I might
> start with just going through some really simple tutorial stuff.
>
> Thanks for the info,
> -dustin
>
> On Aug 27, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Pierre Frisch wrote:
>
>> Actually the complete story of wodev is that it got started with
>> the blessing of Ernie Prakabar (WO marketing manager at the time)
>> and with his active participation. The purpose was to create a
>> wiki site where it would be possible to comment Apple
>> documentation and add to it. Ernie wanted a quick launch so that
>> we could have some significant content for WWDC that year I wrote
>> the software over Christmas (it is still visible in WODev) and
>> simultaneously we got the contract cleared through the lawyers.
>> Unfortunately when it went for signature by the VPE it got
>> torpedoed (Nobody has ever told me who the VPE was so I let you
>> guess). Result we just trashed a project that had support from the
>> WebObjects community inside and outside and had strong buy in from
>> the Apple documentation group that was very interested in
>> exploring new ways of documenting developers tools.
>>
>> The word of the wise is DON'T even think of copying Apple
>> documentation.
>>
>> Pierre
>>
>> On 27-Aug-06, at 11:24 AM, Anjo Krank wrote:
>>
>>> Last year when I asked about this - it was about Pierre's site,
>>> commenting the WO docs - I got the "Apple will defend it's IP to
>>> the last man standing, and we don't you dare mess with us!
>>> Harrrh!" response.
>>>
>>> I don't really believe their position has changed so much this year.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Anjo
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 27.08.2006 um 19:52 schrieb Mike Schrag:
>>>
>>>> Daryl Lee actually talked about this as a possibility at WWDC,
>>>> but this would be a copyright violation at the moment, so I
>>>> recommend that you do NOT do this. We really can't host it on
>>>> the WOLips site if you do, at least. If and when Apple approves
>>>> the use of their content for this, we can, but we have to get a
>>>> release from them first.
>>>>
>>>> ms
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 27, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Dustin Withers wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not much for writing documentation but there is quite a big
>>>>> thread over in WebObjects Dev about the lack of Apple docs for
>>>>> WOLips. So I was wondering if it would be possible for me to
>>>>> take Apples beginning WebObjects docs (ex. http://
>>>>> developer.apple.com/documentation/WebObjects/Web_Applications/
>>>>> index.html )
>>>>> and re-write them for WOLips. I would be completely copying
>>>>> Apples docs for the most part so I don't know if it would be
>>>>> legal. Also I would be doing it for the WOLips project and
>>>>> posting it to the WOLips wiki so I don't know if it would cause
>>>>> problems for the project. I'd like to do this for the Open
>>>>> WebObjects movement and for myself to learn.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> -dustin
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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