Great work. Great idea. Would love to contribute in anyway possible. :D
Thanks
Abhiram Kasina
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Adriano Monteiro Marques <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> This e-mail is long but very important. Everyone should read it
> carefully. It contains some news about the organization, and other
> cool stuffs.
>
> Web Site and Repositories Migration
>
> This weekend, me and Rodolfo will be conducting a migration of our
> website, trac and repository to a new server. We ask everyone to hold
> your commits after 13/02/2010 at 08:00 AM BRT at this time we'll be
> dumping the repo and starting the migration. By the end, we'll test
> the repository and whenever we have it ready we'll be sending another
> message to this mailing list to let everybody know that the repository
> is once again available. The website and trac may be unavailable as
> well during the migration. The blog will suffer only a DNS migration,
> so it should be painless.
>
>
> UmitProject.com
>
> We all love Umit and Open Source, but we need to make money to live.
> Living for GSoC is not a solution for our needs also, though it is
> quite a nice help for our students. We all know that Umit has grown
> only during GSoC seasons, and that's very comprehensible as everyone
> here needs to work somewhere else to get the money for the rest of the
> year. What we need for Umit is a way to keep the development up all
> year long, and offer financial support to our developers to help us
> with that.
>
> Therefore, after a lot of time thinking and defining a business model,
> we decided to incorporate Umit. Our main goal is to sell services, and
> pay our contributors to work on our clients' needs. With the money we
> get from our client, we'll afford our contributors to develop for
> Umit. Whatever solution we may develop for our clients, we'll try to
> release as Open Source in our repositories. If there is money left,
> we'll offer bounties, and sponsor our Umit Summer of Code Students.
>
> Isn't it an awesome idea? Everybody is going to benefit: the
> community, our clients and mainly our contributors:
>
> The community will get better open source softwares, with more
> frequent releases and bug fixes.
> Our clients will benefit from the knowledge of a real world Open
> Source Organization, used to face big deals while developing a world
> wide used application as Umit.
> And our Contributors will finally make their living, full time, from
> Open Source software.
>
> The company is already incorporated in Brazil, and our HQ is located
> in Goiânia, Goias, right in the middle of the country. Although it was
> incorporated here, we don't intend to focus on brazilian clients only.
> We'll try to make deals in whatever country we may have a contributor.
> That's cool also, because it won't require our contributors to
> relocate, though we may do so if needed.
>
> After this weekend's migration, you'll notice that umitproject.com
> will now start to point to the corporation website and umitproject.org
> will point to the open source organization website.
>
> And finally, I'll be granting the copyrights of all Umit codebase to
> the incorporated company. That will grant a long life to all Umit
> softwares, and a reliable name to support our community in whatever
> needs they may present. I would like to stress that the corporation's
> goal is to support the Umit Project Open Source Organization, and keep
> it running in good stand and able to offer good solutions for our
> users. We do not intend to close any software, or to conduct the Open
> Source Organization in a way that may benefit the Corporation and
> negatively affect our community. The Corporation lives for the Open
> Source Organization, not the opposite.
>
>
> Invitation
>
> After announcing Umit's incorporation, we would like to invite
> everyone to contribute to Umit. That's the way we'll get to know you.
> If it happens that we close a deal in your area, we'll hire you.
> Google Summer of Code and Umit Summer of Code students are very good
> candidates for a job with us as the openings will appear.
> If you ever contributed to Umit yet, start now! Get used to our
> codebase, interact with our contributors, fix some bugs, develop a
> feature and we'll keep an eye on you whenever an opening appear.
>
>
> Google Summer of Code 2010
>
> GSoC 2010 is on, and we're planing to participate once again this
> year! We answered to Leslie's call to help spread the word about the
> program, and we got in touch with 22 press meanings (magazines,
> newspapers, radio stations, tv stations and blogs) and we're getting
> some coverage from that. Here is Brazil, we already got coverage from
> 3 blogs (as far as I know by now) and our main technology magazine,
> INFO Exame. That will certainly help GSoC to get more students this
> year. We're planing to create some other advertisement materials, and
> we count with all our contributors to help spread the word in their
> regions. We expect all our contributors to get in touch with local
> press, and try to get some coverage on GSoC and our participation on
> the program (I suggest everyone to read Guerilla PR 2.0 to know how to
> draw media's attention), as well as getting in touch with universities
> to distribute our flyers and even present a talk on the matter,
> encouraging students to apply and teaching them how to write a good
> proposal. We're over 20 contributors by now, and if everybody do the
> same that I did, we'll certainly provide a consistent help to GSoC,
> the Open Source Community and to Umit Project. So, join us on
> spreading the word! Let me know if you need any help. Just drop me an
> e-mail and I can help you elaborate an email or document to send to
> press.
>
>
> Umit Summer of Code 2010
>
> This is our second release of USoC, and last year we had a great
> success with our USoC heros! This year, we hope to achieve an ever
> greater success, and we'll try to improve the program format, rules
> and support.
> What we're offering:
> - Google's T-shirt (They always offer to send t-shirts to our
> contributors)
> - Participation certificate
> - Mentoring with one of our main contributors
> - Recommendation Letter
> - All the support you'll need to get your project sky rocketed
> - Better chance to get a job with us whenever we have openings
> - Some softwares licenses to help you work better with us
>
> By March we'll be releasing all the rules and the timeline for all
> those interested in participating. Stay tunned!
>
>
> Call for Proposals
>
> Right now we're defining what projects we'll propose to our students
> for GSoC and USoC 2010. If you have a great idea, just write it down
> and send it to us. You don't need to elaborate it as if you were
> applying for a spot at GSoC or USoC, but you need to clearly explain
> your idea, how it should be developed, who are the targeted users and
> any other detail you find useful to clarify your idea. Pictures,
> mockups, sketches are welcome!
> The deadline for sending these proposals is 8th March 2010.
>
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> ---
> Adriano Monteiro Marques
>
> http://www.thoughtspad.com
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>
> "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." - George Burns
>
>
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