First, with respect to the option on building demo apps, while there’s a point there saying “put this on RIAForge”, that was not the intent. At least not mine, and it was my idea. The key bullet said “look at Yahoo! UI stuff, integration with Amazon.com web services, etc.–anything that shows how you do things in Java, PHP, .NET, etc.–we should duplicate this in CF”.

I meant very definitely that we should build those apps ON THOSE SITES so that folks seeing them there would see them being done in CFML. Everyone in the group agreed with the value of that approach. I think Matt (who was taking notes) may have added the RIAFORGE point as someone else spoke it. He was having to type pretty furiously.

That leads to a second important point about the list: these points were not “a strategy” but rather they were a summation of the brainstorming that the team did. I mean, yes, Brian had asked each group to come up with a strategy (picking the top 2 ideas as voted by each group), but again Matt went ahead and wrote more (nothing wrong with that, as long as the intent is understood.)

That said, I personally agree that RIAForge is not the best place. In fact, there shouldn’t BE a single place. We should post things everywhere, but in a concerted and coordinated effort, targeting anywhere that non-ColdFusion developers congregate on the web.

Another thing, the group was focusing on developers, not IT managers. That was another group. That group’s results aren’t fully flushed out, but I’ll probably post their bullet points on my blog.

I wholeheartedly agree with your points. Especially about keeping CF from becoming an island. I see the attractiveness of organizing ColdFusion open source, and I love RIAForge. That said, I think we can do more to promote ColdFusion products and applications in commonly accessed intellectual spheres on the Internet.

I’ll be consulting with the other members of the Kalendar team about what we can do to promote Kalendar in other arenas.

DW