<BR><BR><B><I>Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>On 03/02/2008, at 9:42 AM, Richard Neese wrote:<BR><BR>> Do you all think that my daemonswitch project is worth the time. <BR>> will it get<BR>> used or is it just a waste of time and effort ?<BR>><BR>> I need input. I dont hear any feed back of anyone testing it. I need <BR>> to<BR>> know ...<BR><BR><BR>Open source projects are hard work. They often take many years of <BR>effort to achieve critical momentum and only then if the project <BR>actually solves a real need. Your project may well solve a problem for <BR>some people, but if I can suggest:<BR><BR>* there is no obvious place to download anything from your site<BR>* many of the links don't go anywhere<BR>* you explain what it isn't (bloated Linux distribution) but don't <BR>explain what it is<BR>* you don't give people any
reason to download it (is it easier than <BR>"portinstall asterisk"?, what do you package that is really nice and <BR>of benefit to people?)<BR>* Most people who want to download an integrated OS/Asterisk package <BR>would not be Unix gurus and therefore want something widely supported: <BR>why would they not choose Linux?<BR><BR>If you think this solves a problem for people, then keep at it. <BR>Eventually it will be noticed and used. But be very clear about what <BR>problem it solves. Finally, don't expect any help: open source rarely <BR>works like that. If you get some, then great. But your project needs <BR>to be viable without it. Look at the millions of abandoned projects on <BR>sourceforge: some were probably quite good. If it solves a project <BR>*for you* then keep at it.<BR><BR>Finally, you appear to often want feedback or kudos from this list. I <BR>don't know what you are working on to get that feedback; I mean you <BR>might have done a range of terrific
things for Asterisk, but I don't <BR>think many people here know what they are, or why they should be <BR>interested in your knee injury. I mean, we all hope you get better, <BR>but perhaps you could be more specific about the implications for the <BR>FreeBSD Asterisk community with what you are working on.<BR><BR><BR>Ari Maniatis<BR><BR><BR><BR>--------------------------><BR>ish<BR>http://www.ish.com.au<BR>Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia<BR>phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001<BR>GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A<BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>--Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com--<BR><BR>Asterisk-BSD mailing list<BR>To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:<BR><A href="http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd">http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <div> </div> <div>Ari has some valid points here. I
too faced these kinds of issues when I developed software...and I guess that might be why I no longer develop software. I could spend 100 hours on something only to find the users totally indifferent to the new enhancements or worse, asking for more changes and critizing my work to the bosses.</div> <div> </div> <div>Still, we should all remember that lots of people told the Wright Brothers they would never succeed in their line of work either.</div> <div> </div> <div>As for my feedback, Asterisk is a very powerful and cool piece of software. I've tried to sell the idea to my co-workers but they are all too busy earning a living to want to switch from the present phone system. Even if I could squeeze the $1,000 or so to build a server with a Digium card, we'd still have to buy new IP phones for everyone and they just don't see the benefit in that. It brings to mind a few years back when at their suggestion, I built us a HylaFax server only to find that
each day everyone was still printing pieces of paper and manually faxing on the old fax machine.</div> <div> </div> <div>You can lead a horse to the water...but if he's not thirsty he won't drink.</div><p> 
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