Re: [xwiki-devs] Tool for Google Summer of Code: Flower Dev Center

Dear Vincent, Thank you for your reply! Our intentions are sincere. We thought we did something good. I am sorry that you saw our message as spam.

Happy coding and best regards, Cristian @ Flower Platform Team. On 16.05.2013 13:59, Vincent Massol wrote: > This looks like some "gentle" spam to me… :) > > Any dev tool could spam GSOC projects. We could it too: > > "XWiki, the perfect collaboration tool for GSOC students and mentors. Install XWiki and have some great collaboration to make your GSOC project a success" ;) > > What makes it even worse is that their tool is closed source… > > -Vincent > > On May 16, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Flower Platform Team <flower_platform_team(a)flower-platform.com> wrote: > >> Hello GSoC Mentors, >> >> As you are participating to Google Summer of Code, I'm wondering if you could consider using Flower Dev Center [1] while working with students. >> >> Flower Dev Center is an online platform for UML modeling diagramming, with a strong focus on code synchronization, integration with dev tools (Git, SVN, etc) and real time collaboration on diagrams (and a little bit on code as well). >> >> We think Flower Dev Center can be helpful for both: mentors and students during Google Summer of Code. We have created an article on this topic (i.e. Flower Dev Center + GSoC): [2], [3]. >> >> If you have a couple of spare minutes, could you tell us if you would like to use Flower Dev Center? And/or raise topics that you think are important (based on previous GSoC participations) to be supported by Flower Dev Center? >> >> REMARK1: Right now, Flower Dev Center is closed source and offered for free to open-source projects. Starting with next version we'll begin to open its API and source code, so that anyone could write extension plugins, etc. >> >> REMARK2: The next version of Flower Dev Center, the 2.0.0 planned for June/July 2013, has major new features, that we did not demonstrate yet and that will improve even more the collaboration between developers. >> >> REMARK3: Flower Dev Center will support programming languages that are not object oriented, starting with 2.0.0 >> >> Thank you in advance! >> >> Best regards, >> Mircea @ The Flower Platform Team. >> >> [1] - Flower Dev Center web site - http://www.flower-platform.com >> [2] - Video “Flower Dev Center + Google Summer of Code” - http://learn-discuss.flower-platform.com/flower_dev_center/videos/flower_de… >> [3] - Text version with same content as the above video - http://learn-discuss.flower-platform.com/flower_dev_center/tutorials/flower…