Hi, This is great news! Maybe smaller organisations (or even individuals) would like to contribute something but don't know how.
Would it be an idea to: - set up a basic page describing the details of the code sprint - have a way to donate (maybe something PayPal-ish?) - have a list of 'current status of donations' with the names of the donating organisations/individuals (if they wish to be named of course) - maybe have a wish-list for people that donate (or maybe even everybody) for what to include in GeoExt 2 ? Many small donations can add up quickly. :-) Regards, Roald On 04/02/12 04:19, Andreas Hocevar wrote: > Today the GeoExt PSC and representatives of terrestris and Mapgears > agreed on making the following announcement: > > Ext JS 4.x has been available for a while now, and GeoExt 1.x only > works with Ext JS 3.x. With new attractive features in Ext JS 4.x > (e.g. charting, harmonized API with Sencha Touch for mobile > applications), users demand a GeoExt version that works with Ext JS > 4.x. This sprint is about working on such a version. Let’s give it the > working title “GeoExt 2.0”. > > Four organizations involved in the development of GeoExt have > expressed interest in getting together for a code sprint to make > GeoExt work with Ext JS 4.x: Camptocamp and OpenGeo are two of the > founding organizations of GeoExt, with core committers that maintain > the project. terrestris has experience in implementing geo-related > features on top of Ext JS 4 and Sencha Touch. They also have developed > gxm, a flavor of GeoExt that works on mobile devices, an effort that > was reviewed by GeoExt core committers. Mapgears is a solution > provider delivering applications based on GeoExt. They have > contributed many features to GeoExt, and maintain several user > extensions. > > The goal of the sprint is to release a preliminary version of GeoExt > 2.0, which will immediately be available to the community and funding > organizations, but may not yet have all the features from GeoExt 1.x. > > The Ext JS 4.x API is different from the one in previous versions, so > a natural consequence of this is that GeoExt 2.0 can not be fully API > compatible with GeoExt 1.x. > > terrestris, MapGears, Camptocamp and OpenGeo have come up with an > estimated funding requirement of US$ 52,000, which covers the costs of > up to 8 developers getting together for focused work on GeoExt 2.0 for > 5 days. The budget includes travel costs, accommodation and food, and > a share of the costs of the development hours (the rest of the > development hours will be covered by the 4 organizations). > > Funding organizations may communicate their priorities for GeoExt 1.x > features they want ported to 2.0. These priorities will be considered, > but fulfillment cannot be guaranteed, due to dependencies on other > features that require more work to be ported. > > A date for the sprint can be set as soon as the commitment from > funding organizations sums up to the amount of US$ 52,000. We hope > that the sprint can happen some time between now and April 2012. > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@geoext.org http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
