Thanks for the presentation about the getting real method. We’ve learned a lot and will use it during our project.

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I’ve already been following the Getting Real philosophy for a while and find it great to see that it’s now being picked up by a whole minor! Although it’s not necessary to strictly follow all of its principles, there’s a lot of great advice to be found in the book. So buy it if you feel you’ve learned from it… the 37Signals guys have worked hard to make this possible and to make LOTS of developers think about what they’re doing.

Also, hats of for giving the presentation. Sorry I missed it…

I’m glad you like my photo (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikefranklin/155969722/) enough to use as your banner.

however, as you can see, it’s copyrighted, and I did not give you permission to use it.

please remove it from your blog.

thanks

Mike Franklin

Hi Mike, I didn’t was aware the photo was copyrighted. If I was, I wouldn’t have used it. So I removed it from my blog. I really want to point out, that it is not really clear if it is copyrighted material or not. But i’m sorry I used it without your permission.

For all the people who comment spammed (is there a word for it? :)) my blog ….get a life.

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I know it’s a bit late to respond to this “copyright discussion” but I still would like to commenton it. First of all: Andrew you big sell out, you in-competent f**k! Guys like him can really make me pissed. Telling the world he likes open source and then screwing somebody over for using somebody’s copyrighted picture and then calling everybody to spam this blog… seriously…grow up. You really are a rotten egg in the open source community.

Secondly, and i’m not trying to offence Mike, cause he had the manners to handle this in the right way, but why do you put your copyright pictures at flicker when there are much better tools for this…like photostock sites. If you don’t want your pictures used and it’s not being clear how a website handles copyright pictures then why do you put them up there in the first place? You should protect your rights and put them on a competent website and not something like flicker cause it has the free to use smell all over it. And if it’s used then for a well visited “open source kinda blog” I would be honoured, but that’s my opinion.

Well that’s it. Excuse me for telling it so bluntly but it kinda freaked me out. Keep up the good work Niels!

Hello,

We are developing applications for use by non-profit humanitarian organizations and are looking for developers to help us. The applications are designed to help non-profit organizations reach out to the wider public and invite them into environments that support real-time interaction and communication.

We have an OEM relationship with Persony, a vendor in the web-conferencing industry. Persony’s online conferencing facilities depend on Flash Media Server ( or Red5) and any standard web server. Therefore, it is extremely easy and affordable to deploy. In addition, we are extending the webinar metaphor to include open meeting spaces that are open 24/7/365. Furthermore, the rooms are “stocked” with various information resources that visitors can use asynchronously or synchronously. I will send you a Google doc that outlines our near term objectives.

In addition to adding features to the meeting spaces, we are also focused on building tools to help generate traffic in to the rooms. For example we want to combine result sets from various specialized search engines that search across IRC, Forums, Maillists, Usenet, etc. The intent is to find people who are already engaged in online conversations regarding topics that are related to the missions of our client non-profit organizations, e.g. economic development, health, education, etc.

We also want to use Flex to create a way to efficiently contribute to the conversations we find and invite people into “rooms” that contain relevant information and connections to like-minded people.

We intend to use the ZoomFlex tool to speed development and enable us to participate in the process in a hands-on fashion.

We would like to work in very short iterations of 3 weeks or less and take a very modular approach to development. The application is a really a platform for integrating suites of services.

We do not want to write specifications, but prefer instead to define use cases and communicate on a daily basis using our online conferencing tools. Someone from your team would be required to act as a liaison to myself for a hour or so each day.

Obviously, we are hoping that we can obtain highly affordable development resources that will enable us to work quickly and effectively. We are flexible with regard to terms and would prefer to pay per delivered module. Our expectation is that we will have enough work to keep one or two developers busy through October.

Can you tell me what your typical rates are?

Thanks,

Stephen Ocean
808-723-0830 Hawaii, USA
skype: steve.ocean

Thanks for presentation, realy interesting.

Thanks for presentation