Who will create the killer app
of the Moblin platform?
Will there be
a
killer app?
Or thousands?
Luciano Ramalho
Stand-up programmer
I love to program, but I am too impatient
I need the highest level language available
Therefore I use and evangelize Python
User-made softwareMake or break for innovative platforms
Luciano Ramalho - [email protected]
Intel So Paulo Moblin Day February 2009
User-made software
User-made software
User-made software
A billion people in advanced economies may have between two
billion and six billion spare hours among them, every day.
In order to harness these billions of hours, it would take the
whole workforce of almost 340,000 workers employed by the entire
motion picture and recording industries in the United States put
together, assuming each worker worked forty-hour weeks without
taking a single vacation, for between three and eight and a half
years!
Benkler, Y. -- Some Basic Economics of Information Production
and Innovation
in The Wealth of Networks.
The Home Card
Database = stack of cards
Application: a collection of screens
A simple yet powerful metaphor
Hypercard Help
High quality clip art
Icons for buttons
Hypercard
Created by Bill Atkinson, a key Macintosh software developer
Launched in 1987
Part of System 6 OS
Enabled thousands of ISVs and countless user-made
applications
Transfered to Claris em 1991
Apple software subsidiary
Never learned to market it
Discontinued in 2004
Bill owned Hypercard, until he left
One of the bestselling games of all time
Cooper, Alan -- The Inmates are Running the Asylum
Why High-Tech ProductsDrive Us Crazy and Howto Restore the
Sanity
Personas (MS Visual Studio)
Einstein: obsessive, likes to create the most efficient solution
to a given problem, and learns in advance before working on the
solution.
Elvis: pragmatic, likes to create long-term solutions addressing
the problem domain; learns while working on the solution.
Mort: opportunistic, likes to create quick solutions for
immediate problems and focuses on productivity and learn as
needed.
http://www.nikhilk.net/Personas.aspx
Layers suitable to different personas
Screen-oriented: full screen apps
Overlapping windows need large screens
Message box: an interactive console
Rich in samples for all personas
From painters...
...to scripters
(buttons carried their handling code!)
Luciano Ramalho - [email protected]
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