TriNetre - Archive for June 23, 2003
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June 23, 2003
Needed in OSS world -work finishers
[Software]
@ 12:40 PM
Jon Udell touches on a very relevant topic in his post Engines, steering wheels, and open source.
What open source projects often lack is not the engine, but the steering wheel. "Too many programmers," says Tony Byrne, who tracks commercial and open source content management systems for CMSWatch, "but not enough product managers." Paul Everitt, co-founder of Zope Corporation, puts it this way: "We suck at finishing work." Writing documentation doesn't make endorphins flow. Neither does organizing a usability study, or doing triage on bug reports, or writing a bulletproof installer, or internationalizing a product for fourteen languages, or creating an intuitive user interface.
