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
>
>
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