May 12, 2003
What we are up to.
After the rather difficult period following my 'back issue', it took us quite some time to really get up & running again. Since all this open source stuff needs to be funded some way (family needs food and shelter, you-know-the-yada-yada), we're very happy to be working on two cool largish projects again: one where we will be building a web front-end framework for a large EJB application framework (yes, the 'framework' word is there twice on purpose), which will bring us knee-deep into Cocoon-based forms (with Woody) and flow (with REST, like we did for xReporter), and one for the definition (and hopefully later-on the construction) of a CMS framework for various types of applications.The cool thing is this really confirms the business model we had in mind more than two years ago, when Marc and I started discussing our own company. Right from the start, there was the idea not to do turn-key projects, but to provide project teams with what we know a great deal about: frameworks and best practices. That way, we teach them how to fish, rather than povide them with ready-made fishsticks.
Update: also, this regained momentum provides me with the necessary energy to get the next Cocoon GetTogether going. I booked a location already long time ago, but the timing is about right to wake up the community. October, 7th, Ghent (City). There's a good chance there will be a nominative fee to (partly) cover costs, and in the unlikely event we are breaking even, eventual profits will be reinjected into the Cocoon community project somehow.
Comments
do you think your cms framework will have overlap with lenya? we would surely welcome any suggestions you come up with.
Posted by: Gregor J. Rothfuss at May 12, 2003 06:46 PM
You already booked the location?! Great! This sounds promising! Also looking forward to have this great spare ribs again - yammi :)
Posted by: Torsten Curdt at May 13, 2003 09:52 AM