Re: WOLips Documentation

From: womai..ac.com
Date: Sun Aug 27 2006 - 19:49:07 EDT

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    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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