The Proteus Blog

This is a truth or dare post- it’s the truth and the dare is to offer serious, well defined suggestions and opinions. (offers to help on the project in any way you can, are great too..)

I am requesting help in pushing proteus forward, I have wanted for proteus to go open source even before I first officially received the code.

Soon after I had received the code and the official ‘go-ahead’ from the previous owner, I had developers who were helping to get proteus moving. I took a bit of advice to “clean up” the code base before it’s public release. I was really pushing for that goal, so that the code could go out ‘cleaned’ and make it easier for those people who wanted to help, do do just that-help. A few bug fixes happened along the way, but the code is still in a disarray- of sorts.

As my previous proteus update post mentions, I decided to freeze development so that the new GUI could be implemented. The gentleman who did it, did a great job in creating the graphics work for it, but the other half of the team, after weeks of nail-biting and patiently waiting, ended up and the last moment not being able to implement the graphics into the existing code base- again more time needed to be spent on his actual full-time career. I wish him well in all he does, he’s quite the nice gent, and if I were in his place, I’d have made the same decision he did.
I would like to get svn set up as soon as possible, some have suggested google code and other have suggested sourceforge- both of which I have heard of, but up until now, never had a need to use.

I would like some input on how to get this train back on it’s tracks, from choosing the license (I am favoring GPL) to setting up the code repository, and setting up structure for the project.

Several people have stepped forward with offers to help (some of which totally surprised me), and this is great- I now need your advice and suggestions to finally get this turkey in the wild!

Hello everyone… (dodges rotten vegetables tossed at tommy). It’s been way too long and the forums have been visited by some of the most faithful users I’ve ever seen. I inherited this program from the person/company who previously owned it.

Please accept my apologies for letting this wane way too long, but before I go into the project and what is needed, I’d like to explain why.

My wife was pregnant and we were expecting our little one. While she was pregnant she was considered high-risk- this translates into me having to dedicate all of my spare time to my spouse and very little to Proteus. Now, we have had our little one and both Mom and Baby are fine.

I now have more time to dedicate to both the project and community- and need help (re) building the winning team for Proteus.

The goal is to make it open source, however, people are needed, people who can help assemble a team of coders, web designers, moderators, etc., people who don’t know what it means to quit. I’ve had some help up to this point but some could not put in the time they originally offered and others who contributed for one reason or another couldn’t stay on. (I both thank them and wish them each luck and goodwill in all they do in the future.)
The project has been in “hibernation” as it were- it was being worked on diligently by a select few, then I made the decision to ‘freeze’ development while the new GUI was going to be implemented. The GUI has been designed but the gentleman who was going to implement it could not dedicate his talents to the project as he would have liked. Thus Proteus is looking for a person who can help in this arena too.

I’ve been super busy the last few days going through all the emails sent to me, those of encouragement, offers to offer their talents, etc. and a few gripes too

All who are interested in helping on the project please head to the forums or re-email me your offers. In the emails I would like to know your full name, what state or country you live in, IM handle and if you are willing a phone number where you can be reached. If you live in the United States I would really prefer speaking with you on the phone in the beginning so things can be handled much more quickly.  If need be I can arrange phone conferences with others who have also offered to donate their time and talents to the project.

This initial crew needs to be strong and diligent.  Once the code is cleaned up, the forums themed and moved over to a new BB system (preferably phpBB) and leaders established I want to have this become totally open, 100%.

I look forward to hearing from all of you,

tommy

P.S. ignore any spelling, grammatical or other mistakes, my intention was to inform and get this project moving again and quickly.