A few of you may recognize me from the recent posts I have made about Indy
<http://www.indyproject .org/indy.html>
Those of you coming to .net from the Delphi world know truly how unique and
"huge" Indy is both as a project, in support, development, and use. But
Indy is new to the .net world.
Indy is a HUGE library implementing over 120 internet protocols and
standards and comes with complete source. Its an open source project, but
not your typical abandonware type. It has a development team of
approximately 40 people who are very active, a dedicated documentation
team, a dedicated demo team, a support team, commercial support options,
and even a book.
Its hard to simply take someones word for this - especially when the word
is from someone who is not well known in the .net world (yet! :) ).
<http://www.hower.org/Chad/Bio.html>
I currently speak at 6-8 conferences around the world each year as well as
regularly write for Delphi magazines.
But Indy is huge - and even with System.Net.Sock ets Indy still has a LOT to
offer. Its like comparing a kitchen knife with Swiss Army's top model
knife.
For some basics you can see:
<http://www.atozed.com/indy/Texts/WhyIndy.iwp>
The team obviously is heavily Delphi based. Many of us are doing C# work as
well because Delphi 8 just arrived and many of us needed .net earlier. And
many of us still cross over back and forth between VS and Delphi.
What we need is some VS users - in this case VB user to join a new team we
are forming. We have not named this team yet, but this team would help us
move foward into the VS / .net (other IDEs) world. Roles will be mixed -
support, input, direction, docs, writing demos, and more. Dont worry - you
dont have to do it all. Thats what a team is about - but everyone can
contribute what they are able too.
Not a guru? It doesnt matter. While we welcome and would love to have some
MVPs and MSCE's on board, we are looking for average Joe's, corporate
developers, students, hobbyists and even the newbie!
Rewards? Well Indy is free. But its a very rewarding experience, as well as
a chance to learn, meet new people, experience new code, and be part of a
team. Best of all to forward a very cool and already successful open source
project!
Previously a Delphi or a current cross over user? If so - you can reply and
lend some credibility to my message for those who have no clue who I am. In
the Delphi world I am fairly well known - but I am a newcomer and do not
have much name recogntion here, and neither does Indy yet.
--
Chad Z. Hower (a.k.a. Kudzu) - http://www.hower.org/Kudzu/
"Programmin g is an art form that fights back"
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