Reformsoft Rebirth

by Kieran

Recently myself and a colleague have been discussing where our future part-time software development should be directed. Although we have many ideas, and have indeed in some cases started work on some areas, we thought it would be a good idea to carry on with reformsoft, which was started some years ago to help groups of us to congregate together to make software. Hopefully with the multiple developers to each project there would be a higher rate of quality in each product.

The idea isn’t necessarily open source, whilst we do enjoy open source, but instead we are planning on working on both free and commercially viable software. Each of us “own” a project within the team, and the rest of the team will be assigned roles to each project. This way, we’re all managers, we’re all developers, and we’re all designers. As for languages and types of projects, we’re not entirely sure, although we do have a heading on where we want to go (of course we’re not revealing any information just yet).

Some old projects will be started up again, and some new ones will begin. The environments we develop in will be quite varied, and hopefully some web systems will be developed also. Personally, though, I will not be working on any commercial products and instead plan to release free software only, and as it’s part of the team it doesn’t look as if it’ll be open source (though that’s okay too).

Hopefully this will give me lots to keep busy with in the evenings ;)

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2 Comments

  1. Personally in this day and age I don’t see any point of free (as in beer) but closed source projects. You’re just doing all the work yourself for no gain, seems an exceptionally odd decision. The only way I can square it is if you want to keep the option to make commercial extensions (pro versions etc) later.

    Just my 2c - good luck with the projects.

    #1 Steve

  2. Well, my projects will hopefully be open source, it depends on the contributions made. One of the projects that currently exists is huge, and that’s going to be sold commercially but I’m not sure if we’re going to affiliate it with reformsoft or not. I don’t want reformsoft to turn into too much of a clique thing trying to make ourselves seem really professional when in fact we’re just doing it for fun. I’d rather get my head out of my arse, if you get what I mean.

    We’re looking at developing web systems and other hobbyist projects too as one of the developers is a (local) amateur games developer as he’s making his own rendering engine at the moment.

    #2 Kieran

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