New draft of the proposal for in-house developers

Hi Hossein,

thanks for your feedback and support.

I'll follow up shortly with you to see if your experience in joining the team as Developer Community Architect could provide further insights on how to best integrate and manage new in-house developers.

Ciao

Paolo

Hi,

I'm touched that Julien thought of me to be employed to work on Base,
but being fully occupied, and beyond, by my own business, I'm not
available for employ (at reasonable market rates for a programmer).

I do think that the whole scripting ecosystem, and doing SQL
database-driven data entry, analysis, screen-ready and print-ready
reporting etc is a strategically important feature, and my business
became dependent on that. I would gladly enter a consortium or some
other system to pool resources to finance a developer whose job it is
to fix user-blocking bugs, deep issues that only get worse with time
like:

* dependency on HSQLDB1.8
* finishing Firebird integration well,
* dependency on a local copy of an external reporting engine that
   hasn't been updated in ages
* fundamentally fix predictability of the order of events in Base
   scriptable GUI controls (it is a mess of race conditions)
* better PostgreSQL support (such as table/view/... design)

Hi *,

I would gladly enter a consortium or some
other system to pool resources to finance a developer whose job it is
to fix user-blocking bugs,

Next little hint: Donation of 2000,- € to Document Foundation, special Base, 2022-10-11. Have created a database for a second company in Germany.

Regards

Robert