Correct, contribs.org at the time was the only 'organized entity' (as
per remark from Charlie below) to whom Mitel was able to 'hand over'
Currently contribs.org is 'still' registered to SME Server Inc....
On 7-3-2014 17:07, Charlie Brady wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014, Hsing-Foo Wang wrote:
* Mitel handed over the e-smith forums and documentation to the community
* At that time Jeff Coleman registered the domain name contribs.org and
The chronology isn't quite right here. The contribs.org domain name was
registered 12 months previous to the Mitel handover, and the contribs.org
website ran concurrently with the e-smith.org website during that time.
received all assests from Mitel on behalf of the community
* I myself maintained contribs.org for several years, working with Jeff
* Jeff eventually tried to sell contribs.org to Lycoris. I prevented this
* Ruffdogs jumped in to provide an open source spot and hosting/admin tasks
* Quiet for a loooong time, all small eforts to professionlize failed.
* Ruffdogs left and Shad took over.
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On 22/10/13 23:03, Charlie Brady wrote:
/
/>/ On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, John Crisp wrote:
/>/ />>/ In July 2001, e-smith was acquired by Mitel Networks, in September
2004
/>>/ by Lycoris, and the project is currently sponsored by Resource
/>>/ Strategies, Inc. (Not)
/>/ /
Can anyone fill in the following dates for the history ?
e-smith
Mitel
Various things like Ruffdogs/Lycoris etc (they are part of the history
whether they achieved anything or not)
contribs.org
Versions dates :
4.x (e-smith)
5.x (Mitel ? approx 2005 ?)
6.x (contribs.org basd on RHEL 7.3 approx 1 Aug 2006)
7.x (contribs.org based on CentOS 4)
8.x (contribs.org)
Would like to get a potted history done ASAP please ?
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