2008 in numbers
By Pau Garcia-Milà | December, 31 2008 | Events
The eyeOS project during 2008…
- Had 3 releases: 1.5 Gala , 1.6 Gala Sync and 1.7 Lars.
- Reached 390.000 users in the main free server and has a current rythm of 700 new users per day.
- Had 160.000 downloads from 2008 January 1st. (only from the SourceForge servers, not counting the downloads from other sites like Softonic or Softpedia).
- Appeared in various magazines and bools (e.g. Personal Computer & Internet in Spain, Linux Journal in U.S.A., “Cloud Computing” by Michael Miller in U.S.A. and more).
- Was selected to be one day in the advent calendar from Bytecode.
- Reached 25 maintained languages.
- Was finalist in the SoftPedia CCA 2008 as “Most Likely to Change the World“.
- Was finalist in the CNET’s WebWare 100 awards (others were Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Mozilla, Apple… products).
The eyeOS Company during 2008…
- Was funded (January 2008) and has been profitable (December 2008)
- Moved from 6 people (eyeOS initial team) to 15 people in 2 offices in Spain + some collaborators from the eyeOS community in some particular projects.
- Anaël Ollier worked in the eyeOS Office between Febrary and August 2008. We miss you Anaël!
- Lars Knickrehm has been hired to work on the maintainance of the Free Software project from December 2008. He will be working from Germany, so the eyeOS Company is international now
Thanks to everybody for making this possible. 2009 must be even better (and the first surprises will come tomorrow!). The world is getting ready (the Cloud Computing movement!). What should we work on 2009? Comments are open!
December 31st, 2008 at 7:58 pm
It has been a great year for the eyeOS project and hats off to the growing team of folk who made it happen.
Can’t wait until tomorrow!
Peace,
Chris
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:36 am
Happy New Year 2009 to the eyeOS team and the community.
Hope it is possible to route a VoIP client – SIP / H323 / IAX2.
Also provide browsing using the internet connection of the server than that of the end user’s browser for accessing the URLs in the Navigator within eyeOS. This will help transfer control of censorship of the internet by various countries / ISPs / companies to the eyeOS server for better policy enforcement if any.
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:52 am
I think what you are doing is extraordinary. While Microsoft talks you are doing – building the future, and its beautiful.
January 9th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Great work! That’s all.
January 16th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
This is an awesome work, the Cloud is coming… haha
January 25th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Cloud Computing could make a major impact in non-profit making organisations with specific applications needs and shared (secure) data:
Schools: calendar / appointments, electronic grading, pupil database
Hospitals: electronic correspondence, patient database, laboratory results, imaging (DICOM) viewer
Unfortunately, specialist software is always the last to emerge…