First, I believe in this project in one form or another. In a very short time, it has shown in not one way but many ways that this can really be something.
The big BUT, I think we are getting ahead of ourselves and avoiding sitting down, planning and laying things out a bit. And it is going to bite us big time soon.
John, I would call the project leader since he put all of this together and brought us all in at one point or another. On the other hand he is running lots of sites,
and many projects, as he said he is facilitator and has done a bang up job giving us so many tools to work with.
So someone else has to be the projects leader in terms of making this work and head of programming.
We have great test code, but our code does not work on all platforms. John stated he wanted to bring the BASIC guys into the C world, well most BASIC programmers
came from Atari's, Commodores, Sinclairs well you get the idea. Then MS-DOS came to be and we had GW-BASIC, well all of those guys are in the MS Windows world.
I am seeing nothing but incompatibility problems with all our code as I mentioned a few times already. We need to have a meeting, I mean a hangout with video, voice, share desktops etc.
to really hammer out stuff. We need all of us there.
John has posted many times lets all meet, I am the only one who replied with my available times. This is not collaborating and as AIR said is just wasting everyone's time.
Anyways, I am not ranting. I want this to succeed. But we need to be in sync, have a plan a road map and specific goals to meet.
Here is what is happening tonight when I try to run Air's awesome looking code using MingW in Windows (Where GW-BASIC and PoweBasic users are at, which seems to be our target audience).
If we do hangouts, we can record them and upload them to youtube. So if someone misses a meeting, they can watch later and see where the group is at.
My humble suggestions that I think in addition to the wonderful things we already have:
1. Google Drive for easy Collaborative Documentation of Project Objectives, Road Map and status of each phase. We have all sorts of document formats that can be edited very easily by many users in real time.
2. Use the Google Code site we have to store all of the daily latest code snapshots. I am going to make a video on how to do this without Git tonight.
Just a quickie so everyone uses the Google Code site. Cloud9 is nice, but for experimentation and things in my opinion, not to do this whole project in.
3. We need to schedule when we can meet in a hangout to hammer out all of our opinions in an organized and visual way. I am going to buy a more powerful computer and get a better internet connection just to not hold up the group with my weak netbook and slow internet. But I won't spend the money till I hear that we are all committed to this.
Anyways, the code everyone has put together is outstanding that this project is doable and once we are better organized and can make our case to the programming public the more people we should get like JC Fuller, Daniel and all the talent that is out there.
I hope we can move forward TOGETHER!
