We, the founders of this project, are overwhelmed by the success and the great feedback we've received. Thanks very much to everyone - especially for your nice words that are highly motivating!!
Now, after the holidays we are back and working hard to continue our mission. Soon we'll update the website and sketch out the roadmap and building blocks we are working on already.
In brief our targets for January
- Release the eBlocker software as Open Source on GitHub (lot's of work still needs to be done so people can pick up and continue the work)
- Provide a software update for all users to fix the mentioned macOS Catalina issue (see bug forums post)
- Set up new email, cloud and forum infrastructure for better team collaboration
- Rework website to reflect the successful project launch and transfer contents to eBlocker.org (needs SSL certificate still)
- Translate and structure the website for English only speaking audiences
- Set up formal and legal stuff (bookkeeping, monthly filing of taxes, 3rd party contracts, etc.)
- Release and distribute a Press Release about the eBlocker Open Source project
- Answering your questions in the forum 😉
If you feel like contributing to the project (coding, administration, user forum, etc) please drop us an email and we get you set up (by the end of this week): voluntary@eBlocker.org
Thank you so much again for your great support. You rock!
Jan 11: brief update
- We've bought a SSL certificate for eBlocker.org and migrated the website from donate.eBlocker.com (where we hat a certificate already) to the new site. Now all communication takes place via .org only.
- We've set up a new email infrastructure (imap/SMPT) for eBlocker.org and configured all email sending components to use this infrastructure constently
- We've set up a new forum for active eBlocker contributors to coordinate community collaboration (BTW: if you want to contribute, please drop us an email at voluntary@eBlocker.org and we get you set up)
- We've set up most of the formal aspects like tax service register, trade register, bookkeeping, monthly tax reporting etc.
- We are in the process of restructuring the website to reflect current status and are about to start a blog to document the progress.
- And of course: we are currently preparing the eBlocker code for Open Source release (targeting end of Jan / early Feb).
Feb 1st: Newsletter Jan 2020
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English: https://eblocker.org/en/newsletter-archive/
German: https://eblocker.org/newsletter-archiv/