[I-mobile-u] iMobileU Site: Existing Framework Users

[Dave Olsen]

I didn't want this issue coming out of left-field at the conference
call today so I'm starting the conversation on the list.

While I appreciate having my school (West Virginia University) listed
it sort of gives visitors the impression that we're either using your
stock framework or the current edition. Unfortunately that's not the
case. The iMobileU framework definitely served as our base but we've
obviously hacked it to death. I also put in a fair bit of effort
trying to document and share what we had done when it seemed the
original release was just going to languish. We appear to have pushed
ourselves past the point of any sort of merge of efforts especially
when looking at the "future" code for the framework. I'm leery of
giving future developers the impression that they can use your code to
get our style or vice versa. There are a few other schools on your
list that might cause the same confusion because they've also used our
version of the code.

I'm not thrilled that Mobile Web OSP has turned into a full-on fork
but I guess that's what happened. There should either be clarification
provided that at least our school is using a derivative of your
framework or it should be removed. I would hope that you also give
other schools the option to opt-in to the list or clarify editions of
the framework people are using.

Again, I fully appreciate your original work served as a basis for
what we're doing and I try to give credit to you all whenever I talk
about mobile. I'm just not sure that qualifies us as "existing
framework users."

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