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)

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Just a heads up, we have a soft launch of JahTV online at www.jahtv.com. JahTV will be a online promotional platform and will be linked to in the new Jahshaka releases. The idea is to create a easy way for people to publish and promote the content they create with Jahshaka and other open source content creation tools. JahTV is very simple and uses youtube for its back end, and is built on top of WordPress – open source supporting open source!

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Heres the original design that was done up for the jahshaka 3.0 editor, it would be great to get your thoughts and feedback on it. The editor is avid styled but still fits in with the overall look and feel of jahshaka 3.0 and will have smooth integration with the desktop and media management system.

We are working on the designs for the 3d node based compositor which will be last to go up as they need a lot of work. As always, your feedback is priceless so let us hear what you think!

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We found another powerpoint breaking down the development plans to move from jahplayer into jahshaka 3.0 with a intermediary release as a DI solution along the way. We have cleaned it up a bit to meet our anticipated timelines and have re-posted it here.

jahshaka development roadmap

This development strategy allows us to rapidly build on top of the current jahplayer release and jahshaka core framework to rapidly deliver jahshaka 3.0. Your thoughts, ideas and feedback would be much appreciated!

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We would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and amazing New Year here at the Jahshaka Project! We hope to live up to our name and deliver great, awesome free tools for everyone to use in 2012 as our Christmas present to the world!

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Looking through the jahshaka powerpoint and we came across another design for the new jahshaka 3.0 desktop. Since we beleive that the desktop is a key part of any media creation package we wanted to share this with you and get your throughts and feedback.

Its important for us know get a better understanding of what you think is important in a media management system and what features you would like the new jahshaka 3.0 desktop to have.

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