Excellent news, Christian! Glad to hear this came to fruition. On Nov 12, 2:02 am, Christian Hammond <chip...@chipx86.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Review Board has been in development for almost four years now, and in > that time we've seen a lot of growth in the project, and have > brainstormed exciting directions to take it. > > To that end, we're proud to announce Beanbag, Inc. We formed Beanbag > to maintain Review Board and to better help fund it in the future by > developing services and software around it. > > We're starting small. Beanbag is owned and operated solely by David > Trowbridge and myself (Christian Hammond), and will remain that way > for the foreseeable future. Long term, we're hoping we can start doing > even more with Review Board to help address developers' needs. > > As for Review Board itself, nothing is changing with the goals or the > way it's run. Our own personal copyright on the project is > transitioning to the new company. Otherwise, the project is staying > the same. It will still be open source under the MIT license. We will > still do active development on it. It's the same project you > (hopefully) love, with the same people running it. > > Our first big Beanbag project is our upcoming Review Board hosting > service for small businesses, RBCommons. We will be providing shared > and private hosting for organizations and businesses for a reasonable > monthly fee. We'll take care of installation, upgrades, and > maintenance. If you're interested in this, you can sign up on the > RBCommons site to be notified, and we'll let you know as soon as we > begin alpha testing. > > If you have questions, feel free to ask us here or on the announcement > post > athttp://www.reviewboard.org/news/2010/11/12/announcing-the-formation-o... > > Christian > > -- > Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com > Review Board -http://www.reviewboard.org > VMware, Inc. -http://www.vmware.com
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