A core value of the Open Melody Software Group is transparency, or a promise to develop and discuss the product out in the open so that everyone has an equal chance to participate, audit our process, influence our roadmap and share in the excitement of building a product together. We have always known that if we were going to succeed in meeting our own standards for transparency, then we would need to engender it into our process early on. That is why from the very first time we met as a group to create Melody we decided to record our conversations, so that our community would always have the chance to go back, listen and learn for themselves how and why this project was formulated.
FYI: Our first public conference call is being held tomorrow, June 26, 2009 at 10:00a PDT/1:00p EDT. Everyone is welcome!
So over the course of the next several weeks we will be posting the recordings of these calls here to provide everyone with additional insight into how this project came to be. In these calls you can hear us discuss:
- What we felt were the core values of Melody.
- The naming-saga of “Melody” (went through something like 500 different ideas).
- The features we wanted for the product, not to mention whether our “launch” would even have a version of Melody available to download.
- What the role of the Open Melody Software Group non-profit would be.
- What role we wanted Six Apart to have in this project.
Our first call as a group was held on March 6, 2009 and you can listen to it below:
This is a fantastic concept and an honourable goal.
The very best luck with this!
Woops. Sorry about that. Was just about to post a ticket saying that I couldn’t post comments on the blog via Open ID or Google log-in. But, it seems I can now! :-)
Anyway, great work. Exciting to see. And, after listening to the conference call, it feels like the stated objective of transparency is not just talk.
Keep on rockin’ the free world.
Phillip.