Hi Matthias :-) I have been present during your talks with Noel and others about incubating your project. Are there any updates yet?
You already said that the software is a Java EE app, that uses lots of ASF projects, but do you have some architectural papers ? :-) -Matthias On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 16:52 +0200, Matthias Marschall wrote: > As discussed at the ApacheCon we're thinking seriously about open > sourcing our project infrastructure platform (aka collaborative project > management platform). > > We have been thinking about making our platform open source for quite > some time but we were not sure, whether this is an interesting project > for the open source community. At ApacheCon I was very glad to learn > that the topic seems to find quite a bit of interest. > > Our vision is to build a platform for providing all necessary > infrastructure for running projects on the net. We want to provide > and/or integrate all applications and services required to successfully > build a project community. > > Currently our platform supports document management, a closed > communication channel, workflows, administration of communities and some > industry specific applications. > > Especially the administration of a wide spread community consisting of > individuals and members of various organizations is an interesting topic > where we've put quite some efforts into. We developed ways for inviting > new participants to projects, creating of groups of participants, > managing permissions for applications/services for them etc. > > We're planning to extend our platform to enable integration of external > applications like mailing lists, version control systems, wikis etc. > Another possible extension would be a central portal for managing and > accessing all the applications and services. > > Our platform is currently targeted to the real estate and construction > market (hence the construction industry specific marketing on our > website) but technologically it is completely agnostic to any specific > industry. > > It is a J2EE application usings lots of Apache projects already. > > Currently we're working on developing a business case based on an open > source software kernel. I see a quite clear win/win situation for the > open source community and for my company in making our platform open > source. > But I could use additional arguments and maybe knowledge about > successful business models based on open source software as I've been > asked to present this open source strategy to our board of directors on > the 22nd September. I hope to get a decision there to go on with it. > > I would appreciate your feedback about the benefits you see in such a > platform. Would it generate the necessary interest within the ASF to > enter the incubator and to attract a vital community around the core > developers provided by us? Do you think the ASF would be a suitable > place for our open source project or shall we look for a differnt > place/community/license model? > > > Matthias Marschall, conject AG > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
