You may remember the request for comments at the start of this year: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/b0e3487ef8b13eed http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/b0e3487ef8b13eed
- The services of "Lazaridis System Design" have reached pre-release state and will be soon released to the public: http://lazaridis.com/services/index.html You can find the overall picture of how the services interconnect with other company activities here: http://lazaridis.com/pj/index.html The target groups for the services are mainly: * Open Source Projects * Individuals and Vendors (intrested in open source projects) * Commercial Vendors (proprietary systems) I would like to ask for feedback subjecting the business concept especialy in the context of Open Source Projects. You can reply publically or with private email. - The initial plan is the following: The "Initial Analysis" week has a low rate (trial rate). This is to allow Vendors & Projects to try the services for a lower investment: http://lazaridis.com/efficiency/graph/analysis.html Small Scale Open Source Projects can benefit from very special prices, which can reach 1/5th of the current rates (80% off). If the product category is currently under review, an open source project will be charged only a-day-for-a-week: http://case.lazaridis.com/multi/wiki Actual Subsystems is for following: * persistency systems (python, ruby) * complete frameworks, which contain persistency (python, ruby) * project hosts and collaboration tools (python, ruby) As an example, python persistence candidates for the reduced rates would be "Axiom", "Django" and "SQLObject": http://case.lazaridis.com/multi/wiki/Persist - Audits of other listed Subsystems will be charged with 2/5th of the current rates. Large Scale Open Source Projects and/or fully commercialized Open Source Projects will be charged with 3/5th (actual subsystems) or 4/5th (scheduled subsystems). Commercial Entities and Open Source Projects not within the Subsystem listing will be charged with 5/5ths of the rates. - Another possibility would be to make the audits freely and to ask for a small fee from the end-users which use the results (e.g. paypal link within the section). - This is a draft version and the facts and interconnections are most possibly not demonstrated very clearly. You feedback will assist to clarify / adjust the concept. Thank you very much for your time. . -- http://lazaridis.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list