jahshaka 3.0*

As a part of kicking off our development, we started using a basic project management system thats built into wordpress however it lacks 99% of the functionality that we really need for distributed project planning, management and development. If any one can weigh in on options here for a underlying project management system thats free for OSS developers, open/transparent for users and easy to use at the same time we would love to know!

Just a update to say that we have been working on getting everything in place that we need to re-launch the project successfully and its taken a bit longer than expected (but not that much longer) as it is a pretty large undertaking. Some of you may have understood that as re-releasing the software but that is not the case, we are re-launching the project itself and as such need to ensure is longevity.

We have had a ton of requests from people who want to help out but unfortunately haven’t received any from coders so  had to get sponsors on board to help with our development costs in order to keep Jahshaka 3.0 free. We now have everything in place that we needed to re-launch the project and as of today are working full-on on the 3.0 release and have a quarterly release schedule that we plan to stick to.

If you are serious and want to be involved then we would love to have you join the team where there are spots for everything from product architecture to testing, documentation and release packaging, but we plan to take our time and stick to our new development plan and strategy. We will  be launching a project management section on this site shortly to manage the development and release process, and you can follow this to see how things are going.

Good software isn’t written in a day, and we have a lot of work to do. If you have followed and read the development documents that have been posted you will have a good idea of what we are doing already. We will keep you updated on a  weekly basis and hope to have a 3.0 beta ready shortly.

Thank you,

The Jahshaka Team

Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this is not an ordinary industry. The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected that they could do a lot of damage to civil liberties and the world economy on the way down. It would therefore be a good thing if competitors hastened their demise.

How do you kill the movie and TV industries? Or more precisely (since at this level, technological progress is probably predetermined) what is going to kill them? Mostly not what they like to believe is killing them, filesharing. What’s going to kill movies and TV is what’s already killing them: better ways to entertain people. Whatever people are going to do for fun in 20 years is probably predetermined. Winning is more a matter of discovering it than making it happen. In this respect at least, you can’t push history off its course. You can, however, accelerate it.

Find out more at http://ycombinator.com

SOPA has been sent back to the drawing board. ‘The move came shortly after the Senate postponed a key vote on the companion PIPA bill scheduled for next week and amid calls for consensus before Congress moves forward on any legislation to address the problem of foreign piracy websites,’ as written by the Los Angeles Times today. Hopefully the next draft of this bill will create a better foundation to stop piracy and not just assert control over the internet

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We just wanted to share the new Jahshaka logo and branding with you that will go out when we launch 3.0. Its a cooler, freasher logo and we think its awesome! Please let us know what you think!

It was created by Neosims as a part of the Jashhaka 2.0 animation contest (you can see his animation here)

Jahshaka | ReInventing Hollywood