On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:44 PM, 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.
>
Updated: The migration will be consolidated today. We will send an email
telling you when the subversion will be unavailable, but it'll be migrated
quickly, so we don't expected the downtime to take much longer.
>
>
> 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.
>
That's really really great to know that, Adriano. I'm very excited with the
idea, and to see Umit growing up this way.
You can count on me, and I totally support the idea.
>
>
> 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!
>
Go USoC, Go! I always like also to congratulate our USoC participants :)
>
>
> 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.
>
I'm gonna think in something
>
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> ---
> Adriano Monteiro Marques
>
> http://www.thoughtspad.com
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> http://blog.umitproject.org
> http://www.pythonbenelux.org
>
> "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." - George Burns
>
>
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