2007-08-23, 01:10
I'm probably going to "rock the boat" a bit with this post. I have a lot of respect for Team-XBMC and this post is meant as constructive criticism.
I feel we could do a LOT more to attract developers to the Linux port. At a minimum the front page of the website should have a highly visible notice saying that the Linux port is going on with links to the most relevant resources to support said developers.
We should support our users to make it easy to spread the word of XBMC and how frakkin cool it is. I think under the contribute section there should be a heading "Marketing resources" with something like the following:
Banners and buttons
Booklet (an XBMC-in-a-nutshell PDF)
Logos
How does XBMC compare to...?
Presentations
Reviews
Transcripts of Interviews with Team-XBMC
Posters/wallpapers
XBMC t-shirts and other merchandise
Information for the press
I'm doing what I can by spreading the word. Recently, I got a talented C++ colleague round my place to show him XBMC, what it's about and what it can do. His forum nickname is "mangobrain" and he kicked off this thread: (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=27509).
There must be SOMETHING that non-C++ developers can do at this stage to help? Me personally - my background is website backend development, my skill set is Perl, PHP and the general "LAMP" stack. I am also MySQL professionally certified and have designed and optimized databases for the last 10 years. I know XBMC uses SQLite, maybe there is something I can do to optimize the database/table design, normalize stuff, fix slow queries (if any), suggest indexes etc.
Let me say again, I have the utmost respect for Team-XBMC and I'm sure pike, yuvalt and the rest are doing the best they can while also living a life with other priorities.
Cheers,
Ice.
I feel we could do a LOT more to attract developers to the Linux port. At a minimum the front page of the website should have a highly visible notice saying that the Linux port is going on with links to the most relevant resources to support said developers.
We should support our users to make it easy to spread the word of XBMC and how frakkin cool it is. I think under the contribute section there should be a heading "Marketing resources" with something like the following:
Banners and buttons
Booklet (an XBMC-in-a-nutshell PDF)
Logos
How does XBMC compare to...?
Presentations
Reviews
Transcripts of Interviews with Team-XBMC
Posters/wallpapers
XBMC t-shirts and other merchandise
Information for the press
I'm doing what I can by spreading the word. Recently, I got a talented C++ colleague round my place to show him XBMC, what it's about and what it can do. His forum nickname is "mangobrain" and he kicked off this thread: (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=27509).
There must be SOMETHING that non-C++ developers can do at this stage to help? Me personally - my background is website backend development, my skill set is Perl, PHP and the general "LAMP" stack. I am also MySQL professionally certified and have designed and optimized databases for the last 10 years. I know XBMC uses SQLite, maybe there is something I can do to optimize the database/table design, normalize stuff, fix slow queries (if any), suggest indexes etc.
Let me say again, I have the utmost respect for Team-XBMC and I'm sure pike, yuvalt and the rest are doing the best they can while also living a life with other priorities.
Cheers,
Ice.