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The 2011 for J!Research
I had not still get used either to the idea of the ended holidays or that I have to write 2011 instead of 2010 in dates when Joomla! 1.6 Stable release finished to wake me up from the holidays lassitude. First of all, congratulations to the Joomla! community for this important milestone, result of a tremendous devotion and hard team-work. Now, direct to the point, it is time to turn J!Research developers' effort into 2.0's direction.
Tiempo de desafíos
Esta es la primera vez que escribo en español para J!Research y lo hago no solo por ser el único idioma que realmente domino, sino como una muestra de gratitud a la gran acogida que ha tenido el proyecto en España. Un vistazo a nuestra página de usuarios les permitirá confirmar lo que sugiero.
517 días transcurridos desde la liberación de J!Research 1.1.x, una lista larga de usuarios y dos nuevos colaboradores son un buen recuento de esta fase de desarrollo de la que trataré de derivar algunas lecciones así como los retos para la siguiente.
La ciencia en España en 2010
El 2010 en España será un año duro en lo que a investigación se refiere. Los fondos destinados a la I+D+i se recortarán en al menos un 13% y serán muchos los proyectos en desarrollo que queden sometidos al olvido. Sin duda este será un duro varapalo para todos los jóvenes investigadores que perderán sus puestos de trabajo y en muchos casos se verán obligados a cambiar su vocación o incluso a emigrar del pais en busca de una sociedad que apueste por su trabajo.
My last cycle leading J!Research
Dear reader, if you are slightly surprised because of the title of my blog post, I have to confess I have used an old and well known strategy to catch your attention. Even though my routine and priorities have changed since I came to Europe to continue my studies, my cycle in J!Research has not finished yet and my motivation keeps as strong as in the beginning. I am concious that nothing is forever in this life and know that at some point in time I will have to hand over the control of the project to someone else. But stop talking about hypothetical situations; the real fact is that I am not going to leave J!Research in the short term, so J!Researchers ;-), I am afraid you will have to deal with my periodic mail spam for a while.
J!Research, after 1.0 release
J!Research project has grown incredibly since its conception as a Google Summer of Code 2008 project. This program finished for me with the release of 1.0 version which brought to us a very cool website and our own entry in Joomlacode and JED websites.
Things have changed a lot since that. Users started posting issues in the tracker and offering translation work, like in my books of bazaar-styled development. Now, J!Research has been translated into German, Italian, Polish and French, while Bulgarian package is being developed. It is rewarding to know that your work is useful to others. Then a colleague from Austria, named Florian Prinz, joined the project. At first ,he was a user posting issues in the tracker, then he expressed his interest in collaborating with code becoming the most active developer and proposing excellent new ideas. In a few weeks, J!Research included a cool coverflow view for staff and support for financiers, cooperations and facilities. The best part came when a Spanish company decided to finance the development of a series of extra requirements for J!Research which effectively gave more sense to our work. We worked hard and as consequence to this effort, we are near the completion of the second major release of J!Research, 1.1 which will be accompanied by a new website, courtesy of Neri and a summary page of our users' websites. Finally, the team grew when Carlos Cámara, from Spain, decided to collaborate with sh404sef support and Spanish translation for 1.1 release.
Things have definitely changed!!!