NO! to Open Source Domino, YES! to Open Source Education
Loads has been written about moving domino to an open source delivery model. It has gone as far as hmnl showing an openletter to Steve Mills. I am not a supporter of delivering Domino as a piece of opensource that you download on sourceforge but I am a fan on opensouring Domino education. I think that access to the software and the training materials to enable to use and building of solutions creates the potential for growth.
I think the following resources would be useful to engender this growth:
- Preconfigured Domino stack on Linux and vmware -ready to go
- Formal course materials
- Certification enablement materials
- Sample development and administration projects (end to end that work!)
The software model of the day is essentially give 99% away and make money on 1% left, lets start giving education and knowledge away and create the potential of increased attention.
The question for the Lotus community is how much are they prepared to give-away for free with no guarentee of a payback? discuss.
