Archive for June 22nd, 2005
Open Development
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
My dad told one of his coworkers about zenphoto and how I’m developing it — in an open transparent process, on the blog, encouraging user feedback and comments (and I do! keep on commenting!) — and I was surprised that this guy thought it was a revolutionary way to develop software.
I read Michael Heilemann’s post about how blogs are revolutionizing the world, and it didn’t really make sense to me until today. I thought, “Gee, this really is different.” I mean, how else would you — a complete stranger, the proverbial and mythical “user” proprietary developers talk about — actually have a direct link to the developer of the software you might use someday.
I think this is revolutionary. Tell me I’m wrong. Read the rest of this entry »