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

Hi :)
Early concept.  A lot of room for tweaking.  

Shorter and faster is more fun and exciting.  LO is dynamic and responsive.  More than 2 or 3 
months might look like we are trying to take advantage.  

Also the competition is not about getting everything 100% working.  Whoever won would probably need 
to continue doing work with Base.  If they won but didn't want to then we go with 2nd choice but 
give the winner some publicity.  
Regards from
Tom :)

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From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Base - Backends bidding war?
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 15 September, 2011, 16:47


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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