We're currently doing a beta program hosted on our server so that we can provide support to the users, as well as make sure they always have the latest version of the NOLOH Kernel for their applications. This will help us communicate with the sandbox users, and get quality feedback from them. This is especially necessary because our documentation is far from perfect, so while we're actively working to create more docs, examples, and videos, we can still get valuable insight and feedback from a small group of serious developers.
Eventually is this going to be some sort of hosted service or a framework users download, like Rails or Zend Framework?
If it's the former, please ignore my comments :) If the latter, I for one would be playing around with the code right now if there was a download link... A few examples in a README file would do fine for now. Release early and often, as they say ;)
It would be hard for users to do significant work with NOLOH when the code is hosted on your own server and updated automatically, possibly breaking code they added.
We plan to offer free hosted, free download, as well as commercial hosting and download options. Currently NOLOH is being used in several major companies (ex. CIG) for their website in addition to their internal applications.
The Beta Program is setup to allow us to work closely with a small group of developers so that we can help them develop their applications in NOLOH. If any updates during the beta program break an application we will work with the developer at our cost to fix the problems.
We have lots of documentation, articles, videos, etc, to put together before we can offer it to non-commercial users which is what we hope the beta program will help us accomplish.
BTW the register form is pretty discouraging... Why not let users sign up with email and password and fill up their info/settings later on, as they go along?
