The filePro Group - Project I - For the entry level programmers

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Only fp at casabellagallery.com would say something like:
> Imagine that every writer out there stops writing simply because there are
> other people writing ... or worst yet, we chose not to learn because some
> one else already knows it ... ???   By the way, I am not saying that I am 
> a writer or anything near that, I simply believe that yours is the wrong
> position and one should NOT do something simply because some has already
> given it a try.

More a matter of ROI and market saturation.  Is it really worth writing
another linux book, for instance?  Another HTML book?  Does the world
really need yet another web forum package?

Now, correlate to a far smaller niche market.  Less volume == less need.

In this case, The Survivor Series is a -massive- undertaking that John will
never get his ROI on even if every member of the list bought it at twice
the cost.  Not with what he can pull down on the open market.

Which leaves either philanthropic or marketing purposes as rationale for
doing it.  In the latter case, still not worth it unless you have a helluva
product to boost or really need to boost your Q-factor.

Now how much blood and sweat is philanthropy worth to you?  Only you can
decide that, but it's what you need to weigh when evaluating this kind of
project.

> Am I to believe that the work John did is the final word?  Is there nothing
> beyond that?  No one should dare do unless never done before?  I did not
> know John had done such thing and I am not intending to measure myself to
> him nor his work.  Every one knows he's the bigger man.  Let this project be
> what it is truly intended to be and for those that may be interested in.

It's pretty damned comprehensive, Jose.  With video, no less.  You'll be
hard-pressed to match, let alone beat it, if it were a contest.

> Please note that what I am trying to do here is to bring people together
> not to set them apart.  I am trying to build a place where we can all share
> our interest in filePro and all things programming if possible, coupled with
> a some other areas of interest.

The problem is that so many of us have other things we either need to do or
would rather be doing.  I have a web site undergoing complete redesign
(including -all- product sub-sites), a K2500XS and SPD20 to practise on,
music to write, about 9 software packages I want to learn, WoW and other
games to play, DVDs to watch, and that's not even all my recreational
stuff.  That's my downtime.  Otherwise I'm working or sleeping.  And I
don't have kids like a lot of people here prolly do.

One of those things you have to look at is who will do all this free work
in what time?  For some it's a hobby yet.  I still code for fun.  But less
so since I do it professionally too.  You may have plans, but not everyone
will jump to meet your goals.  Those that participate may be doing so
mostly for visibility--that'd be my reason, up-front.  I'm not gonna be a
hypocrite about it.  But then it's weighed against the other things in the
same class that could help me and still falls shy of compelling in ways.

Like discretionary income, you have to find people with an unlimited supply
of discretionary time/energy, or to whom it's a competitive project they're
willing to "spend" their resources on.  That, or another crusader out to
try jumpstarting the community as you are, for whom it's personal.

mark->
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