At 3:29 PM 11/11/2, Tom Irish wrote:
> John Dowdell wrote:
>> If you've also got interests in this area, could I ask you to drop a
>> note in the actual Macromedia Contribute newsgroup? That way you'd
>> reach the widest range of people on the Contribute team, thanks:
>> http://webforums.macromedia.com/contribute/
>
> Will do... The discount isn't even the huge thing because let's face it,
> there's only so much you can discount a $100 product, but the encouragement
> is already there for us to co-brand and it sure is simple enough... If we
> could take it one step further and provide both the app and the co-branding
> on the same CD somehow - whoa - you've got all of these web developers
> handing these things out with many of the sites they produce. Heck, it's
> almost worth $100 as a proofing tool for a site of any size... I know I'd
> incorporate co-branding and custom tailor "Contribute" for particular sites
> were there an easy way to wrap it...


One of the exciting things about a 1.0 release is that it's very open to
growth and change. After something gets 5 or 6 years of engineering into it
then subsequent changes aren't as quick and dramatic, but for something new
like Contribute, there's a lot of room to influence how it will grow and be
useful.

I lost track in the conversation, but I'm assuming you're already familiar
with Joseph Lowery's article today on co-branding Contribute 1.0:
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/contribute/articles/cobranding_contribute.html

The beta team provided a lot of ideas and reality checks, and now that it's
out in the wider world there's a lot more we have to learn about how this
tool will be used. Please do drop a note in the newsgroup about how you can
see an opportunity for yourself in packaging up a total solution for your
clients... that's useful feedback, thanks!

jd





John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco
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