whether we need to pay programmers (despite all the goodwill towards LFGSS, we shouldn't expect to get work for free)
Programmers work for free in the evenings and weekends on open source projects, virtually all of which are hosted on GitHub. So long as the new forum software is open source, on GitHub, and has one or two committed leaders, this thing could work and not involve paying money.
I myself am a programmer (C, C++, C#, JavaScript, but mainly C# for the last 22 years) with 39+ years of professional experience, and am willing to get involved.
I read recently somewhere in all these discussions about Velocio talking about re-writing the frontend in Go. I don't know Go, but am happy to learn. This could be a nice retirement project for me, and a long-term endeavour of worth and value - something I believe in.
It's all open source. The back end was on GitHub for years but then it was moved to git.dee.kitchen a while ago.
The front-end rewrite is still on github (here, now?). @Velocio and @pascalo made great progress but it seemed to stall a year or two ago. Not sure why.
Programmers work for free in the evenings and weekends on open source projects, virtually all of which are hosted on GitHub. So long as the new forum software is open source, on GitHub, and has one or two committed leaders, this thing could work and not involve paying money.
I myself am a programmer (C, C++, C#, JavaScript, but mainly C# for the last 22 years) with 39+ years of professional experience, and am willing to get involved.
I read recently somewhere in all these discussions about Velocio talking about re-writing the frontend in Go. I don't know Go, but am happy to learn. This could be a nice retirement project for me, and a long-term endeavour of worth and value - something I believe in.