Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Base - Backends bidding war?

People may need more than a month to do the coding work, with all the 
testing, etc..  But it would be interesting to see something like this 
being done.

On 09/15/2011 11:40 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> I think there is an opportunity here.  Effectively whichever back-end gets chosen  will be getting a big publicity scoop. 
>
> Even the runners-up could benefit from having tighter integration with Base and a stack of free publicity from the press as they hear about the competition / bidding-war. 
>
> A competition that back-end projects could enter to improve how well Base works with their 
> back-end.  A few rules such as no creating new unsolved problems for other back-ends.  The 
> competition to run for maybe 1 month.  Whoever wins gets the prize of being the new back-end for 
> Base.  Cash prizes for the top 3 would be superb but i don't see how we could do that.
> Is that something that could be well publicised in the press?  I think we should invite various projects such as PostGreSql, SqlLite, HqSql and some of the heavier ones such as MariaDb, MySql but allow others to join in. 
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)


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