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Title: MorphOS Developer Connection officially opens
Post by: IOSPIRIT on June 20, 2003, 01:49:27 PM

Today, the MorphOS Developer Connection (MDC) (http://mdc.morphos.net/), a new service for MorphOS developers officially opens its virtual doors.

Every developer working on MorphOS-related projects is welcome and encouraged to become a free member of the MorphOS Developer Connection and join over one hundred developers already there!

What is the MDC?

The MorphOS Developer Connection (MDC) is mainly a communication and support platforum that serves as a central interface between general third party developers and Genesi.

It aims at supporting third party projects and developers interested in development or actively developing for MorphOS with information and organizational infrastructure (if needed).

What are the benefits?

If you join the MDC, you have, among others, the following benefits:

• access to the MorphOS SDK, including documentation, MorphED and a complete GCC-based compiler environment
• discuss and exchange with other developers
• establish new business contacts
• organize your own project in dedicated forums, file groups and using our project tree (only on request)
• get listed in the developer addressbook & link-directory
• organize or participate in events
• everything developer-related in ONE spot

Costs?

The MDC is a free service of Genesi to support the MorphOS developer community. Thus, there are no fees.

Join us!

Join us! A membership is completly free. Click here (http://mdc.morphos.net/index.php?mode=adddb&submode=add) to sign up. You'll receive an email once your account has been activated.

Title: Re: MorphOS Developer Connection officially opens
Post by: bbrv on June 20, 2003, 02:04:39 PM

GREAT WORK Felix!

Thanks!

R&B :-)

Title: Re: MorphOS Developer Connection officially opens
Post by: greenboy on June 21, 2003, 08:06:49 PM

Just to clarify,

Phoenix and MDC will remain separate sites which act as partners. Felix's site handles MorphOS-specific development and its coding-related issues, while Phoenix will handle all Pegasos-related development on multiple OSes, and operate under Phoenix's expanded definition of DEVELOPER, which includes many categories besides coders of those who contribute to the advancement of the platform.

So Phoenix of course is involved with MorphOS too - but the focus is on different services which compliment those of Felix's excellent site. Some examples are the Initiatives that Phoenix is involved in including the current developer seeding with free (used, pre-April) Pegasos Betatester boards, the PhDemoScene group, The Superbundle group, the US Tradeshows group, etc.

Yesterday Felix and I talked on the phone about the best way to coordinate and make sure we compliment each others' work. Many people will (and do) belong to both. As Phoenix's new addition to the website staff makes it possible to leverage Talent Pools to better advantage people who are developing contracted software at MDC will easily be able to query graphics artists, audio and music specialists, people who design packaging and promotional materials, translators and technical documentation people, hardware designers, web and print journalists, etc.

Then, too, we can begin to build teams for larger and more ambitious projects and avoid duplication of efforts so that more categories of software become available instead of just ending up with more still more browsers with excrutiatingly slow upgrade development cycles.


<--greenboy---<<<<
coordinator & facilitator-at-large
Phoenix Developer Consortium (http://phinixi.com)