Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!toby From: toby@angst.forefront.com.au (Toby Sargeant) Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: Talent vs. Time [was Re: omigod] Date: 25 Feb 1998 05:42:30 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <34E10AF7.F024308@ix.netcom.com> <34E2F857.714@sms.ed.ac.uk> <6c1n9l$4706@scea> <34E87B54.B3@sms.ed.ac.uk> <6caek3$5bj13@scea> <34F38487.6C2C@mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns.forefront.com.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.6 UNIX) On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:40:07 -0500, Jonathan Calvert wrote: [snip] >If anyone cares to post, I would love to see the answers to the >following >questions: > >1 - Do you feel that you have enough time to dedicate to Yaroze >programming? No. This is a function of knowledge and tools. I had slightly more time when I was stil in university, but I got much more done in that time. This has a lot to do with the fact that I know a lot more about unix and the amiga than I do about the PSX. Of course I'm working to rectify the sitation :). So I guess my answer is No, but only because I'm on the nasty end of the learning curve. >2 - Do you regularly read the various news groups? Yes. >3 - Do you contribute to the various news groups? When I can. >4 - Have you created a working program? Yes, for suitable definitions of "working". My main focus at the moment is writing a yaroze serial I/O API with fileserver capabilities for unix, so I'm getting to know a bit about the internals of the thing while still working on my preferred platform. I did a couple of little things within the first few weeks of having a yaroze, but not much since. >5 - Have you posted the program and/or source to your member page? No. When I have something that I think people can learn from, or use, I will. I'm completely committed to the idea of open software, which, IMHO, is the only way that the yaroze project is really going to take off. If cliques of coding 'elite' form, then it kills the free flow of information, which in turn means that the pioneers, so to speak, can't or won't ease the road for the new members. So far it looks like the majority of people are in favour of disseminating information, which is really great to see. >6 - Do you regularly visit other member pages? Not recently. Other things on my plate. >7 - Do you look at the resources on the other Yaroze sites (i.e. Europe > and Japan) Yes. Toby.