[DotGNU]This Year in DotGNU 2002 (DRAFT)

[Peter Minten]

DRAFT VERSION 1

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*         by Philosophy Working Group leader Peter Minten            *
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2002 has been a year of maturement for DotGNU. Old plans were replaced
with new plans, old project with new projects and in a sense old 
people with new people.

The year also carried some nasty suprises. One of the biggest problems 
was (and still) is lack of developers. The other big problem was lack 
of code. For the architecture projects the ground work of 
specification writing had to be done first before any code could be 
written, luckily the specs are in the final fase and coding work is 
expected to begin soon.

But despite the slowdown created by these problems there were was a
cause for celebration. The Portable.NET project reached it's most 
important milestone, the compiler can now compile the baselib 
removing dependency on the Microsoft C# compiler.

In the fall the organization of DotGNU was reorganized. Working 
Groups were created to support cooperation between similar projects.
The leaders of all the Working Groups come together in the DotGNU
Working Group which effectively acts like a cabinet for DotGNU.
Each Working Group will explain it's goals later in this text.
The role of the Steering Committee was scaled down a bit to that
of high court. The SC still acts as the highest power in DotGNU,
but it doesn't set out the course anymore.

Last but not least the focus of DotGNU is beginning to shift from
providing as much compatibility with .NET as possible to building
a webservice supporting system which is only compatible with .NET 
where absolutely needed. The DotGNU system will be a bridge which
applications can use to communicate with other applications 
regardless of where those applications run, in what language they
are written, etc.

That's about what happened in the second year of DotGNU. The rest of
this message contains information about the various active projects,
explanation on the individual Working Groups, a who is who list and
developer testimonials.

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*                        DotGNU Forum System                         *
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*                   by project leader Peter Minten                   *
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*                          Foundation Code                           *
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*                            Architecture                            *
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*                            Philosophy                              *
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*                 by Working Group leader Peter Minten               *
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(NOTE: The Business WG doesn't have a leader at the moment so I'll
 write it's piece, unless of course somebody wants to take up the job
 (hint, hint :-))

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*                            Webservices                             *
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*                 by Working Group leader Peter Minten               *
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(NOTE: The Webservices WG doesn't have a leader at the moment so I'll
 write it's piece, unless of course somebody wants to take up the job
 (hint, hint :-))

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*                 by Working Group leader Peter Minten               *
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------------------------ WHO IS WHO IN DOTGNU ------------------------
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Peter Minten
  * Philosophy Working Group leader
  * Forum project leader

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This Year in DotGNU 2002

All texts are Copyright (C) 2002 of their respective owners.

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