Widget Library Development

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Chris Roby <croby at nyu.edu> wrote:

> Last week during the weekly meeting Nico took us through the designs for the Widget Store.

So this is a pretty high-level question that I asked on Confluence,
but do you really want to keep calling this a "store"?

Or to put differently, what's the goal here? The notion of store
suggests a very centralized and passive experience of a consumer
browsing merchandise and purchasing what they want.

Is that really what you want to suggest?

If yes, who's the "customer"?

I ask because I think you really need to vastly, substantially, grow
the development community around OAE, and that this might be a way to
do that; a way to help coordinate distributed widget development.

I was assuming, then, that the target is developers and staff, for the
most part.

If that's the case, "store" doesn't really work as metaphor, and may
be frankly off-putting.

But maybe I'm just misunderstanding what this piece is to do.

Either way, it might help to have answers to the questions above (say
at least in the README for the github project)?

Bruce