[TYPO3-ect] Status of the party extension?

[Volker Graubaum]

Hi David,Mario,

>> But I think many companies are waiting for this extension. Maybe they 
>> can do some fund raising to pay a fulltime developer?

I think this is unrealistic, since we are talking about running costs, 
not 1 time payments.

>> I'll talk to Jeff, maybe the WEC could start this :)
> 
> Great idea! I could imagine that there might also be other companies 
> that might be interested in sponsoring. At the last Developer Days, I 
> had a long chat with Volker Graubaum (www.e-netconsulting.de) who is 
> looking for a party solution for their commerce extension. He asked me 
> to promote the project to become an "official" TYPO3 project so it could 
> be finance by companies. If the WEC takes over this thing, sponsoring a 
> full-time dev might become a realistic opportunity.

as written above, I don't think so. But what can be realistic is 1 time 
sponsoring to get the gole :-).

Since we've already a lot of written documents about the project, I'm 
wondering if it would be possible to you, to define the next steps more 
detailed, than we've today, and ad some workload calculation.

e.g.

	finishing model and backend mask			 5 Days
		some more description
	Backendmodel with treeview, XYZ...			15 Days
	Basic Extension tx_party_view				10 Days
	
and so on
with dependencies. Than we can find sponsors for the different parts, 
which can be handled through WEC for example.

Greetings Volker