dotProject 3.x Development Sponsorship

As you'd be aware from postings on this blog in the past, we have been working on an extensive plan for moving dotProject 3.x forward - both technically and functionally.

The actual development work on that has been proceeding as and when developer resource are available, but as of a week ago, we have been able to devote one of the development team to the task on a full time basis for approximately 1 - 1/2 months.

This dedicated effort has been made possible by the generous sponsorship of De Bortoli Wines

De Bortoli's are a renowned supporter and champion of Open Source Projects in Australia and their assistance to dotProject means that our developer will be able to make some real inroads into both the technology changeover and the functionality improvements.

To monitor / track the work we have re-instigated the developers dotProject site at:

http://devsite.dotproject.net

There is an option there for people to login in and monitor progress.

The project there will be a fluid entity as we adjust what can be achieved against the sponsorship money, and as the unpaid developers are able to contribute at the same time (which is currently very much an unknown).

This sort of sponsorship offer for dotProject is an absolute first for us. Never before has anybody from the community provided us with a monetary amount that allows us to employ one of the existing developers (who bring you dotProject and the free support on a daily basis) and needless to say this is an unbelievable offer and we're extremely grateful.

We trust that you - the user community - can also give some consideration to how important this offer has been to everyone.

This entry was posted on 13 Mar 2008 at 12:24 by karen and is filed under Admin Ramblings.

4 comments

Comment from: Arian Maykon [Visitor]

Hi, are u still up do develop dotProject 3.x on Zend Framework? If yes, how can i make part or the dev team?

Thanks for this great software!

15/03/08 @ 03:19

Comment from: [Member]

Thanks for the offer - If you have a look around on these blogs you’ll see a post that goes through how to help out on the project.

17/03/08 @ 11:12

Comment from: Brendon [Visitor]

That is great news. Are you able to indicate what it would cost to keep the programmer at it full time for an additional month? I am just interested to see what sort of investment it would take to see dp through to a 3.x release.

20/03/08 @ 02:35

Comment from: Mike Moore [Visitor]

I would love to be a part of future sponsorships if you would have us.

15/04/08 @ 12:45

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