Report for February, 2010

[Kris]

For the month of February, 2010
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Members and advisors,

Financials, work in progress, and completed work for February, 2010.

Financials
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Screen shot of our bank statement:
http://fireworks-project.googlegroups.com/web/bankstmt_1001.png

Our financials spread sheet (balance statement) can be found at
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqaYslezw-VQdEJPU25mNXBHVGY1b3lBcm9xQkZxRWc&hl=en

We have not had any financial activity in February.

Work In Progress
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* Our 2009 fiscal year tax return filing will be done by March 12,
2010.

* Kixx, our client application delivery platform. The next hurdle to
overcome is mashup security.

* The second draft of our business plan/member pitch.

* Interacting within the programmer community to build connections and
relationships with an eye toward recruiting talent.

* The Crown Construction pilot program is being implemented as a
Firefox extension along with many of our JavaScript modules for Kixx.

* Our collaboration software project is still on the back burner.
Currently our priorities are to get a production version of DCube and
Kixx up and running before we start work on this project again. We
are also evaluating Basecamp and Wave for possible ideas.

Completed Work
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* Back in the beginning of February I fixed the last "blocker" bug in
the Google App Engine DCube implementation. This is exciting because
it marks the first fully functional implementation of a DCube server.
You can find out more here:
http://fireworksfactory.basecamphq.com/projects/3775079/milestones/13141140/comments#57219495

* Since I am now going to be working on versions of Kixx for both the
Chrome and Firefox browsers, I needed a build system that can
automitically build the installations for each platform from an
integrated code base. Nothing that fit my needs was available, so I
built our own version of GNU Make that serves our purposes. You can
find more here:
http://fireworksfactory.basecamphq.com/projects/3775079/milestones/13310332/comments#58237021
http://github.com/kixxauth/kake

* While building the DCube JavaScript client I've also been patching a
few bugs in the DCube server.
http://github.com/kixxauth/dcube_google-appengine/commits/master

* Our members passed an amendment to our Operating Agreement that
limits the number of points that any member can give to another in a 1
month period. I updated the operating agreement publications to
reflect this.
http://groups.google.com/group/fireworks-project/browse_thread/thread/d6e8ef92fbe5e71f/481786436f53dbd5#481786436f53dbd5
http://groups.google.com/group/fireworks-project/web/limited-liability-company-operating-agreement
http://groups.google.com/group/fireworks-project/web/operating-agreement-explained
http://www.fireworksproject.com/join

* Lastly, I completed research on filing corporate tax returns for our
unique type of corporation. I'll do a write up on it sometime in the
not too distant future.

Points Allocation
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Lastly, Mike, Martin, and myself are eligible to vote points for Jan
2010 and should do so by posting to this discussion thread.

The current points standings are here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqaYslezw-VQdE02Vi1OWnkzUmVxOV82OGJCeU44THc&hl=en

-- Kris

[Kris]

I'm voting 1800 points to Mike O'Hara for input and research into
personnel recruiting strategy, tactics, and other contributed insight
and general value added.

[Michael O'Hara]

I'm voting 10,000 pts to Kris Walker for development of the Technology Stack, Recruiting efforts, and administrative duties.

[Kris]

The latest member standings:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqaYslezw-VQdF9lam1wNVozSEQyVkhNYW9VOERZSlE&hl=en