[FM Discuss] questions about place

[Joshua Facemyer]

adam wrote:
> hey
>
> On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 13:57 -0500, Joshua Facemyer wrote:
>   
>> I had thought that I had remembered from a previous discussion that 
>> booki as a platform (not as a service) was also going to be offered as 
>> FLOSS.  If this is the case, the question is how does that goal fit into 
>> the rest of the picture?
> i dont know if i understand the difference between platform and service?
> im sorry, im not trying to be dumb...you mean can it be downloaded and
> installed? if so then the answer is yes...it has been like this for some
> time although we have (ironically) no install docs but we dont actually
> expect anyone to try and install it yet since its still very alpha....
>
> booki-dev.dlossmanuals.net
>   

Platform would just be the provided software, not actually running on a 
server.  Service would be running on a server providing actual use of 
the software.

This might be a good thing to clarify, both externally and internally.  
It might be good to give the platform a slightly different name to 
prevent confusion.
>> As for your explanation, that helps to clarify a lot, and I like the 
>> vision.  It makes more sense in perspective.  (You should probably give 
>> a fuller perspective at the outset when asking complicated questions ;)
> yeah sorry. i realised that too late. problem is that (a) i forget not
> everyone has been involved to the same degree as i have with fm and
> booki etc so i tend to assume a common shared experience sometimes which
> isnt shared, and (b) sometimes i dont have the picture down clear until
> it gets written in an email and sent to aco or doug or this list...
>
> apologies...
>   

Accepted ;)

JF