ANN: RealThinClient SDK - Forum registration

[Danijel Tkalcec]

You want to use the Open Source version of the RealThinClient SDK and would
like to be able to ask questions on RTC Support Forums?

By popular demand, we have started offering developers who do NOT have a RTC
SDK license/subscription to register for write access to the RTC Support
Forums, for a one-time fee of 49 EUR. Please note that there is no time or
post limit on RTC Forums and that you will NOT be paying for support. The
registration fee is there only to cover Forum maintenance costs.

If this is what you were waiting for, scroll to the bottom of this page:
http://www.realthinclient.com/order_sdk.htm

PS. This is a one-time registration process/fee for developers who are using
the Open Source RTC SDK version. All developers who have puchased a RTC SDK
license or subscription in the past (while it was a commercial component
set) should still have access to the RTC Support Forums and do NOT need to
register again.

Best Regards,
Danijel Tkalcec, Team RTC
http://www.realthinclient.com

[Danijel Tkalcec]

Development on the RealThinClient SDK for Linux has started today. If you
would like to make sure that you get access to the new components when they
are released, please make a small donation to this effort by using the
"DONATE" button, which you can find on the bottom of this page:
http://www.realthinclient.com/order_sdk.htm

All contributors who make their donation before the new components are
finished (most likely in about 4 weeks) will get access to the new
components directly upon their completion. Everyone who would also like to
become a registered RTC Support Forums user (to be able to ask questions
about the RealThinClient SDK on the Forum) should make sure that their
donation is NOT below 50 EUR.

Should we manage to collect enough donations to cover the development costs
of the new components, there is a good chance that the new components will
also be released under the Open Source BDS license and become part of the
RealThinClient SDK package available for download from SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtcsdk

[Danijel Tkalcec]

"Danijel Tkalcec" schrieb:

> Should we manage to collect enough donations to cover the development
> costs of the new components, there is a good chance that the new
> components will also be released under the Open Source BDS license and
> become part of the RealThinClient SDK package available for download from
> SourceForge

So far, four developers have contributed, donating 300 EUR total.

Since the bid on RentACoder was accepted at $800 USD and the developer was
promissed an additonal $300 USD bonus if the project is completed on time
(within 4 weeks), total costs for this development will be $1100 USD = cca
700 EUR. This means that we are *almost* half-way through to making this
into a real community project.

PS. My contribution is to guide the developer working on the project.

[Danijel Tkalcec]

We have collected enough donations to completely finance the effort of
making the RTC SDK cross-compatible with FPC/Lazarus for Linux, and the
developers who have contributed (by donating) have voted to make the
resulting code released as Open Source BSD. Once the RTC SDK has been made
fully cross-compatible with FPC/Lazarus for Linux and Windows (probably by
the end of this month), I will be uploading them as a new RTC SDK release on
SourceForge and making a formal announcement here and on RTC Forums.

And, last but not least, I would like to send a big THANK YOU to everyone
who has decided to step forward and make this community project possible.