May 4 2007

Raymond Camden joins Model-Glue

Posted by Joe Rinehart at 4:19 PM
3 comments
- Categories: Model-Glue

I'm proud of the Model-Glue project and its code. Its community support, however, is somewhat of a sore spot with me.

It's hard to know what you're good at until you try something. I've tried being a community leader for an OSS project, and I've found out I'm not very good.

Without any more fluffiness: today at cf.objective, Raymond Camden agreed to work with me on creating and filling a "Community Manager" role. There's no one I'd rather have: Raymond's proven his ability to create and support OSS ColdFusion software, and he's fantastic at talking about Model-Glue with ColdFusion developers. We'll be working out the details (Ray, up for dinner tonight?), but I'm hoping we'll see:

* A move to a better list system, such as Google Groups

* A new Model-Glue web site with proper forums

* (This one's a dream, and we'll need help doing it): Community driven "Actionpacks" that server as starting points for common applications, like calendars, etc.

If there's anything we've missed, or anything you'd like to see the Model-Glue team do, please let us know in comments or e-mail!

Comments

Doug Hughes

Doug Hughes wrote on 05/04/07 8:36 PM

Well, I'll volunteer to add supported for named bean factories in CS.

And I'd like to help establish some guidelines for 'official' ActionPacks. I've got a lot of ideas as to how these can be done in nice and flexible ways.
sal

sal wrote on 05/05/07 11:57 AM

Oh man! I'm super excited about this. Cheers to Ray for doing this. MG has been needing this for awhile now...
Are we speaking of community action packs similar to Rails plugins? Great idea is so, I'll definitely be willing to contribute a bit. I'm needing to write a calendar using MG at work here soon so...

Good call Joe
Mike Kear

Mike Kear wrote on 05/06/07 11:32 AM

Joe I understand how good Ray is at communicating with a user community, but i think you're being hard on yourself. You say "...being a community leader for an OSS project, and I've found out I'm not very good."

I think that's far too severe. Look at what you've done - you've got a framework up and accepted, and **IN USE** by significant numbers of people. As you well know it's not enough just to make something great - to have it adopted by knowledgeable people takes other qualities - insight, communication, flexibility, tenacity, and you have managed to display all those qualities. ModelGlue has got where it is through your leadership and vision.

Ray is definitely excellent at talking to newbies and experienced uses alike and will be an asset to the Model Glue project. But it's wrong to dismiss what you've accomplished.

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