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3. To date I've had $25 in donations (thank you!) and a tiny tiny number of code contributions. In hindsight (2) wasn't a great business decision. It still might pay off if we can get others to contribute.
4. I'd be fairly upset is someone forked my code without prior conversation. Splitting up the community further is not a good idea. I haven't decided about the juggernaut direction and am only talking about it now. There are (almost) no features I've removed at this time. Public discussion of all these things is a good idea.
5. I've made some moves toward a new name and brand, but basically I've been waiting for Erlend's final decision about his direction. At some point he might say: go and do your own thing, stop confusing my userbase. Or let's see how we can get your fork back into my deployment. Or something else all together. I've already got a new mailing list and have some early work done on a new site plus wiki. But I'm waiting to see what is going to happen. Besides, I'm so busy these days...
6. Daniel, if you have Rails experience, then we can well do with your skills and help. Project management is not an issue here: what needs to be done is very clear. We just need people to help do it. I left the other mailing list because I got a bit sick of all the promises of help without any follow through: lots of people asking for stuff but no real help even to document UI goals, do testing or anything else. Please join the new mailing list if you want to discuss current development efforts: http://groups.google.com/group/jobsworth
Lastly I want to make very clear that I have no animosity toward Erlend, and in fact I'm very thankful to him for all his work. He was generous enough to not only build ClockingIT, but to release it to the world and also to host lots of people for free. That's what drew me to the project in the first place. How he donates his time to his public works is entirely his own business and he has been very generous. I would wish I had more communication from him over the year, and I tried hard to only implement things he would be able to adopt for the first 6 months. But then came a time when waiting for collaboration on design decisions was holding up my business, so I had to progress in a slightly tangental way.
I've been contemplating a way to monetize the project so that I can afford to spend time and money on it into the future, but I don't want that to distract from my primary business (which is software development in the education arena), so I've done little on that for the moment.
Finally, I think that one of the problems here is that most the people drawn to this site and this forum are non-technical and non-programmers. One of my goals of setting up the github project and a new mailing list has been to work on attracting a different kind of person: those who can contribute directly. I certainly need to do more to promote that.
My current plan is to perform another month or two of work: cleaning up the calendar, getting rid of prototype, making the html validate and a bit more. Then look at UI cosmetic improvements so that we can take screen shots and create a web site to promote the product. I'm a long way down the track of building a demo site (lots done like postgresql and file writing).
Not sure how familiar you are with them, but I find a tool like Trac makes this real easy.
sick of all the promises of help without any follow through: lots of people asking for stuff but no real help even to document UI goals, do testing or anything else.
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