[topicmapmail] German Topic Map Engine developers wanted

[Dicheva, Darina]

Thomas,

Congratulations on creating a German Topic Maps consortium! The idea of
sponsoring a developer team for producing a stable and complete version
of an open source TM engine is wonderful. However, I would suggest that
you look at TMAPI instead of TM4J which uses a newer standard. 

I am looking forward to see any advancement in this direction.

Good luck in securing funding for such a project!

All the best,
Darina 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:topicmapmail-bounces at infoloom.com] On Behalf Of 
> Thomas Schwotzer
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 10:18 AM
> To: topicmapmail at infoloom.com; tmlist at topicgarden.com
> Subject: [topicmapmail] German Topic Map Engine developers wanted
> 
> Hi,
> I'm head of research of a medium software
> company in Berlin, Germany (www.neofonie.de).
> In March I additionally become Professor at
> university of applied sciences in Brandenburg,
> near Berlin.
> 
> I'm about creating a German consortium for a
> project focusing on Topic Map based applications.
> Actually, this consortium is nearly complete.
> 
> We have very good chances getting sponsored
> by either our ministry of research and education
> or ministry of economics.
> 
> Technical basis of this project will be - of
> course - a Topic Map Engine. We plan to use
> an open source implementation. That's a challenge.
> 
> There are a number open source TM engines in the
> field. My impression is - and correct me if I'm wrong -
> there are just a few active developers in each
> project. Moreover, the number of OS platforms seems
> to increase, e.g. at last TMRA workshop in Leipzig
> I saw yet another new Java based platform beside TM4J.
> At the end of this workshop we briefly discussed
> the lack of a stable, well documented and de facto
> standard open source implementation with a broad and
> active developer community. Even commercial providers
> like Ontopia agreed that this gap should be closed.
> 
> Thus, we plan to acquire a budget for a developer team
> that joins an existing OS project like TM4J to make
> it stable enough for our applications.
> 
> Who is interested and able to lead such a team?
> You must work in Germany because we focus on
> German research programs. You also must work
> at a research institute or a small or medium sized
> company that is willing to join the consortium.
> 
> Kind regards, Thomas
> 
> -- 
> Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schwotzer
> Fachhochschule Brandenburg
> University of Applied Sciences
> 
> 
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