The community's activists has come out with a suggested new project called ADEMPIERE to capture all ensuing bug fixes, enhancements and self made upgrades and Addons to the system to be directly controlled by the community instead of ComPiere Inc, USA.
Many comments are been made in the Fork Debate, and here we have to discuss ahead whether general or specific.
Can someone suggest the approriate slogan? This plus other suggestions and even webmastering are welcome to the draft content of www.adempiere.org. Carlos has done a highly praised task of suggesting Adempiere in the first place.
We have booked the domain names www.adempiere.org (under me) and www.adempiere.com (under Carlus Ruiz) and we await Trifon to take the 3rd one.
Victor Perez is booking the SF.net/adempiere namesake and begins there as the new CVS of all our work+ Compiere latest good licensed version.
We make a rule that all such domains and policies be the purview of the community headed by an Adempiere Council, of which i been asked to take temporary stewardship, of which (been power-crazed at times) gladly accept. (Now i m feeling the hangover of sleepless nites).
Anyway, the Council is a hidden project forum, where its membership is by merit of contribution to Compiere suite or addons, or even tutorials and subject matter design.
Though my style is added humour and radical freedom but there is also honour and respect as the above namesake states. I shall together with this pristine committee stage its best collaborative effort that gives an all round winner to all parties of Compiere, be it the commercial Inc in USA, the latent global (and often silently DIY) userbase, the community and business as a whole.
Among issues, if i may state in passing, it just isnt fair to hear some of the active contributors on the outskirts of SF making requests for subsistence when the Feudal Lord within the walls make millions of which those contributors have a stake in, by way of investment of effort and mind. (Hope i didnt pliagarise some Marxist Leninist here).
And i vehemently agree with the remark by Trifon that if Jorg wanted to take human resources, he should have look within his apparent flock here. Its the least decent thing to do. To put foreign mercenaries into ComPiere cubes that shall attempt to comprehend what Compiere is heading and should head, the ppl may be the best he got - right under his nose. And it takes a lot not just been technical but eloquently expressing in writing in SF. The time they spent there is burning proof of their commitment that all job interviewers try to establish painstakingly and often in vain of new knowledge workers.
Enuf said, on with the business of Adempiere. This is a community thing - nothing personal, but very social. We done our part, u do yours too. Give your suggestions in any forum public or private email, or anon, and we shall promise to attend to its merit and move fast ahead.
Compiereans of the World, Unite! U have nutin to lose, but your diskspace.