[Adium-devl] Focus/What are we doing?

[Eric Richie]

In terms of V/V my personal feeling is that it's just another feature rather
than THE feature (yes, I think it's a rather big deal, but there's a lot
more to IM than audio and video).  The idea behind the discussion of naming
was after a discussion I had with Colin where it was suggested as a way to
emphasize that we now have it (due to the LARGE volume of requests).  I
certainly don't see the need to make it the primary focus.  I still feel
that the idea is to go for the best IM experience out there; v/v is simply a
matter of keeping up with the times.

As far as the issue of "why we're here", I'm here because of the community.
All of you guys as well as our users are the biggest assert we have and I
think should focus on that.  It's a given that new features will continue to
come mainly from our own ideas/interests since we all know that it's easier
to work on something that you have a personal desire for, but I don't feel
that this goes against the idea of "bettering the community".

-Eric (who feels as if that didn't come out right but figures the intended
meaning should be more or less evident...)


On 10/18/07 1:41 PM, "Chris Forsythe" <chris at growl.info> wrote:

> Folks,
> 
>     So for the first couple of years of what ended up being Adium X, we
> were going for "so many features you'll crap your pants". For those who
> are newer, yes, that was the motto.
> 
>     We stopped that a while ago, but we never really came back with what
> it is we're doing. I've been running under the belief that we're going
> for "the best IM experience, period", but I'm sure others feel other
> ways. This has come to light recently, however indirectly, with the
> naming convention discussion we had recently. Some folks wanted Adium
> VV/Adium AV or something similar, which would indicate some kind of
> emphasis on Voice/Video. Others have expressed interest in having
> voice/video, but not really focusing on it. My opinion of this is that
> what we're seeing is a different set of goals from each person, and
> without a clearly laid out plan/structure for what we are achieving,
> we're going to continue to have these types of discussions, which could
> degrade into any number of weird/odd or even bad situations.
> 
>     I've also been reading a lot of self help/marketting type books,
> some of you know why, but I can't go into it right now. These books
> however have drilled the point into my skull that this is something that
> we need to do, that we need to define what we're doing and where we are
> going with this. What makes us unique (our purple cow ( Seth Godin
> reference, better explanation:
> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/28 and
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6909078385965257294 and his
> Purple Cow book are all excellent)) with Adium, what our goals are, and
> where we are going.
> 
>     I've been meaning to send this email for a while, I really think
> that once we define what we're doing and where we want to go, the random
> ambling we have will start to have a sharper focus and we'll get there
> faster. I also thinks that you're going to have to think about why you
> work on Adium in the first place, and why the others work on Adium.
> 
> 
> Chris
> 
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