We Doin' Any Good Here?

[smithy]

Yeah... I think we are doing some good.  I don't think anyone out there in the industry is doing anything for us however, but people within certainly are.

I get the impression that the community is doing a lot.  I think that it's only recently (maybe in the last 1-2 years) that people have realised that no company is going to do very much.  People are now coding, setting up support and resource websites.. lots of people in the community are working to help the Amiga.

The OS4 and MOS projects are being developed by Amigans and older Amiga developers, recently a community-driven OpenOffice porting project begun.  There are some cool homegrown products such as Hollywood.

Wayne reckons the community has degenerated, but I think that even though trolling is still commonplace on the forums, there are still plenty of cool welcoming communities in usergroups and some IRC channels.

Many of us are working on stuff to that we think will help the platform.  I am hopeful, that a year from now, we'll have what we'll need to approach more mainstream markets and attract people from the outside that is, an office suite may be well on its way, there are a few brand new modern candidates for a capable web browser in development, and with the software there.

I think the next year is going to be one of hard work and development for us.  Hopefully in 12-18 months we'll have what software we need to be a real option as a computing platform.  All we need is for someone to push the platform commercially...

[smithy]

Cymric wrote:
@Wayne:

You have just witnessed 'forum dynamics'. Stopping it means hard moderation, and restriction of discussion to informative, sensible and serious topics only. That would more or less do this site in, because we just saw that there is very little information left in this community. Have you never witnessed at parties how discussions take off somewhere and end up in the most bizarre territory? (I remember an episode where we came up with paintballing with abandoned tanks. Don't ask.) Same with forums.

Perhaps off-topic banter can be restricted to the Coffee-house?  Of course, it's human nature to go off on tangents, but this was a serious topic, and these days there seems to be no shortage of other frivolous topics to talk about socks or Bloodline's girlfriend!  If you're at a party and there is a serious subject being discussed, then it's considered very rude to change the subject before it was finished being discussed ;-)