The conceptual idea behind the wiki is, that we present all the good ideas and requests we get from various sources and turn them into very concrete design stories in the format of Blue Prints which sponsors will commit to with a certain amount of contribution and this way share the expenses with others.

Each Blue Print describes:

• A short user scenario
• A design proposal
• An estimate of how much development time (and money) is needed to release
• Who is currently sponsoring the idea
• The status of the Blue Print (waiting for sponsors, in progress, finished, dead in the water, ...)
• If the Blue Print is in progress there will also be a short worklog or progress status attached.

What we're hoping for is that our working partners* will see this as an opportunity to get the best out of Open Source and facilitate some of the features of Open Source which are typically praised the most:

• You don't have pay for all the features yourself, you'll be standing on the shoulders others.
• If something is buggy or you miss a feature, you can just fix or implement it yourself.
• You'll be independent of in-frequent (and in-consequent) release-schemes of typical proprietary products.
• Instead of being humiliated when begging on on you knees for some vendor to fix your issue in their tool, you'll be sitting comfortably in the drivers seat.

Typically we will start the implementation of a blue print when we have about 70% of the estimated budget covered by sponsors.

This is an opportunity for everybody to calmly evaluate their business case and return of investment for any given feature (or fix)  and only commit to the budget they find feasible

If you have any ideas you'd like to discuss with us, please do not hesitate to contact us. We'll present your idea here and help you find co-sponsors for it.

Don't be limited by the history of what we have already done. We're prepared to take steps in any direction using this concept. Remember that we are collaborating with a whole bunch of other small consultancy houses within different geographical regions as well as different professional areas. This is a cheep way for you to get highly specialized skills working for just  you ...at a price that might turn out to be only an inferior fraction of what an equivalent in-house development task might have cost you.

We have success stories based on this concept which has been sponsored by as prominent companies as Grundfos, Novo Nordisk, Sony Ericsson, Nordea and ATP - that's the league you'll be joining - We hope to bid you welcome.

Start by giving us a call (Lars Kruse +45 20 87 25 30) or a mail.