As a typical English-language user you haven't probably heard about Open Power Board project. It was a Polish initiative started in the end of 2004 as a result of commercializing Invision Power Board. The goal was to create an open-source discussion board by the Polish PHP community. However, the project was closed after a couple of weeks, because almost everyone said they have no time to develop it. In fact, the only people who were still active were me with Open Power Template and Tomasz "Slump" Szczupliński as a manager. I tried to reactivate the project in 2005, but there was the same story: everyone except Slump and me went away. I gave up and decided to create more open-source libraries, using the infrastructure left by OpenPB. I managed to make the first stable release of OPT and started Open Power Forms, a library for data validation and form processing integrated with OPT. The code is still marked as beta, because I did not have anyone to finish the JavaScript part, although the PHP-side solutions proved their effectiveness many times.
Of course the situation could not last forever. Two months ago I decided to close OpenPB definietly and throw away almost everything that had any connections with that project. The idea of a new programming group came to my mind and I asked some people whether they would like to participate in it. The team is formed by:
- Jacek "eXtreme" Jędrzejewski - PHP/JS programmer and XHTML/CSS hacker. Personally, he's my brother.
- Radosław "Radzio" Piekarz - PHP/JS programmer. Personally, we study together.
- Tomasz "Slump" Szczupliński - our manager mentioned above.
- Tomasz "Zyx" Jędrzejewski - or in other words - me. I code libraries and everything that speeds up other software.
In the beginning, we are going to finish Open Power Template 2, as well as Open Power Forms. We have some more ideas, but they will be coded later. Anyway, we'll try to provide a great set of open-source tools for PHP that present a completely new point of view to many issues.
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