As you probably know, in January 24th, we finally created the WOCommunity Association as a real entity, a non-profit corporation registered in Canada. Starting with the incorporation, we reworked the "products" that we offer, and now you can support the Community by becoming a first-class member of the community.
By becoming a first-class member, you help to help pay the expenses for the WOCommunity Association services and tools, and also to make deposits for WOWODC. So you might ask yourself, where's my money is going? Let's drill down:
The server is currently using 6 GB of RAM, 104 GB of disk space and an average of 50 GB of bandwidth each month (it can go as high as 125 GB when we release the WOWODC recordings).
So, basic expenses are $2713.55 annually, meaning we need 45 first-class members at $50 each to pay just for the basic expenses.
Expenses
|
Annual total (including taxes) |
---|---|
Dedicated server |
1559.76 |
FreshBooks |
377.40 |
Shopify |
743.40 |
CrashPlan |
32.99 |
Total |
$2 713.55 |
Needed revenues: 56 first class members @ $50 each.
Now, let's see the WOWODC 2013 numbers.
|
Total (including taxes) |
---|---|
Hilton banquet service |
27 971 |
Event manager |
3 449.24 |
A/V provider |
5 665.40 |
Andrus' hotel bill and plane ticket |
1 287.22 |
Badges and larnyards |
150 |
Total expenses |
$38 522.86 |
We are expecting the same number (64) of guests as last year and all presenters gets a free pass, bringing the number of people to 75 (including the event manager).
It's a bit hard to estimate the revenues for WOWODC because of the group rebates, but if we have a similar number of groups as last year, revenues should be:
|
Total (including taxes) |
---|---|
Ticket sales |
$35 050 |
Gold Sponsor |
$1 127 |
Silver Sponsors |
$1 500 |
Bronze Sponsors |
$600 |
Total revenue |
$38 277 |
Which gives us a $245 deficit.
As you can see, it's a lot of expenses, and we do not expect a profit.
So please support the WOCommunity Association by becoming a first-class member or by coming to WOWODC. Everyone benefits from the WOWODC material, but to have WOWODC content, we need to actually do the event.
Release 6.0.0 (aka "The Cleanup Release") have been released in the master branch of Project Wonder! Johann Werner wrote a nice change log on GitHub:
In short, we moved obsolete frameworks and examples to a Archives directory, JasperReport has been updated to v4.7 and all references to WO 5.3.3 have been removed.
The previous release of Wonder 5.x is available in the "wonder_5" branch. This branch won't have any commit activity in it, unless we need to commit a fix for a major bug (or if people are willing to submit pull requests to maintain it).
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!
It's official, WOWODC 2013 will be held on June 22, 23 and 24 in Montreal, at the Hilton Bonaventure.
Full details and registrations at the end of January! If you wish to present, please contact info@wocommunity.org
Dear community,
After reviewing comments made at WOWODC 2012 and discussing with active Wonder committers, we have decided we need to move forward. The first step is to cleanup Wonder a bit. Hence, we will release Wonder 6.0 on December 3 2012.
Wonder 6.0 will be a "cleanup" edition. By cleanup, we mean removing or archiving code or tools that are obsolete and that almost nobody uses, and also introducing changes that might break small things. As it is already the case, Wonder 6.0 will be only for WebObjects 5.4.3 (WebObjects 5.3 users can still use the Legacy branch).
Wonder 6.0 will include the following changes:
- Remove the entity-based ERRest implementation
- Update JasperReport jars to 4.7.0
- Moving old examples and frameworks to a Archives folder
Later in 2013, Wonder 7.0 will be released, and it will require Java 1.6. Starting with Wonder 7.0, we will also start removing deprecated APIs that have equivalents.
A patch to find deprecated methods calls in your WOD bindings had been added to the integration branch of WOLips (see https://github.com/wolips/wolips/commit/b6109f148510dc0ceb982ceb2d5a85274f092b78). If you wish to try it out, use the WOLips37Community build available at http://jenkins.wocommunity.org/job/WOLips37Community/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/temp/dist/
At WOWODC 2013, we will discuss the future of Wonder (we will also probably have a couple of Cayenne presentations).
We will send a reminder a week before the release of Wonder 6.0. The first release will be done in the integration branch of Wonder and on December 15th, it will be done in the master branch. We will also do a Wonder 5.8.2 release before that, so if you have plenty of time to adjust your Jenkins setup or any other tools you use to fetch/build Wonder.
Thank you.
We are in the planning of WOWODC 2013, and to decide on a date, we would like to know who wants to present at WOWODC next year. If you want to present at WOWODC 2013, please tell us when you are available between June 24 and August 24. You don't have to be 100% certain that you will present, and no need to decide on a subject for now. Send an email to info@wocommunity.org if you wish to present.
Please note that WOWODC will be in Montreal again.
A reminder: early bird pricing for WOWODC 2012 ends on May 14th! If you wish to save $100 on WOWODC 2012 or the Project Wonder Boot Camp, buy your tickets before May 15th!
Check wowodc.com for all info about WOWODC.
We released for free two WOWODC 2011 presentations. The first one is Designing WO applications for remote Sync, from David Aspinall. The other is is ERRest (what's new in ERRest, security, versioning and debugging) from Pascal Robert.
Both recordings are now available in the WOCommunity podcast feed and at http://www.wocommunity.org/webobjects_screencasts.html
ERRest and ERSync will both be talked about again at WOWODC 2012, if you wish to learn more, check out the WOWODC Web site.
All community resources are now hosted on the WOCommunity server!
Wiki:
Jenkins:
http://jenkins.wocommunity.org
WOLips 3.7 stable:
http://wocommunity.org/wolips/3.7/stable
WOLips 3.7 latest:
http://wocommunity.org/wolips/3.7/current
Wonder builds:
http://jenkins.wocommunity.org/view/Wonder/
Wonder JavaDoc:
Wonder stable (master branch): http://wocommunity.org/documents/javadoc/wonder/stable
Wonder latest (integration branch): http://wocommunity.org/documents/javadoc/wonder/latest
Wonder legacy (for 5.3): http://wocommunity.org/documents/javadoc/wonder/legacy
WebObjects JavaDoc:
http://wocommunity.org/documents/javadoc/WebObjects/5.4.2/
http://wocommunity.org/documents/javadoc/WebObjects/5.3/
JProlifer 6 plugin:
http://wocommunity.org/documents/tools/jprofiler6/
Jadclipse:
http://wocommunity.org/documents/tools/jadclipse/
RuleModeler/eomodeldoc.jar/WOInstaller.jar
http://wocommunity.org/documents/tools/
Apache adaptors:
http://wocommunity.org/documents/tools/mod_WebObjects/
If you have links to the resources in other locations, please change your links so that Google picks up the changes. If you see anything missing from the list, please say so.
Hello everyone,
Johnny Miller made a nice contribution to Wonder: a MooTools framework that is replicating the features of the Ajax framework. He also contributed a example application (MooToolsExample) along the framework.
So if you want to try it out, get the build from jenkins.wocommunity.org and if you get any problems, please report them on GitHub.
Many thanks to Johnny for his contributions!
Hello everyone,
Mark your calendars, WOWODC 2012 dates are now official! WOWODC 2012 will be held in Montreal (Canada) from June 30 to July 2 2012.
We will also do a WO Boot Camp on June 28 to June 30. This boot camp will be done by Paul Lynch, one of the few people who do WebObjects development training, and will have a strong focus on EOF.
We don't know yet at which hotel the event will be held, but the last day (July 2) of WOWODC will be held on Notre-Dame Island, in a renovated Expo 67 building just next to the F1 race track (Circuit Gilles Villeneuve).
WOWODC 2012 will be held again in Montreal, either on June 29th, June 30th, July 1st, or July 6th, 7th 8th. More details in late September.
We released for free the remaining recordings from WOWODC 2010. The just released recordings are:
Thanks to the presenters for the fantastic presentations they have done at WOWODC 2010! You can find the recordings on wocommunity.org
With the release of Lion, we want to assure you that Eclipse and all of the other tools and frameworks works well on Lion. Please be aware that Java is not installed by default on Lion, to install it open any Java application (it could be /usr/bin/java) and the Finder will ask if you want to install Java.
If you are launching wotaskd, be aware that the user in the launchctl script have to be "_appuser", wotaskd won't be started if the user is "appuser".
We just released two recordings from WOWODC 2010 that were previously only available for members who are part of the Community Membership program. The two recordings are:
You can find those recordings on the Screencasts page on wocommunity.org or in the podcasts feed of the community.
Hello everyone,
Don't forget that early bird pricing for WOWODC 2011 ends on May 16! Buy your tickets before that date if you want to save up to $110 on your ticket. Check all the details on the WOWODC site.
See you in July for 3 days of learning and fun!