Openversion blog

A new feature is added:

Virtual Projects - “Projects to be done“.

What is just a small feature for openversion we hope to be a big step for open source community. Until today you could add not only existing projects you’re working on. Now you can add also those you intend to develop. You can create a virtual project and see what potential users think about it. They can vote, propose new features or even sponsor certain features.

The interesting part is that even users without a development background can add virtual projects. The projects they desperately need but are not created. Yet. Have you ever seen someone complaining and saying “if I could have such a program/plugin/add-on/framework…?” Now openversion is the place where they can add what projects they need and the community will vote/propose/sponsor features. We called them Virtual Projects, but you can call them Projects Requests as well.

A lot of questions are emerging from here an still we don’t have answers for all of them. If a developer add a Virtual Project, he will be in touch with potential users and will be able to gather the features requested by the users, and then will implement the project. What will happen with a Virtual Project added by someone who does not intend to develop it? He will transfer the project to the developer of choice? More developers will create several implementations independently? Soon we’ll have answers for that, until that moment enjoy the Virtual Projects…