2nd UPDATE: We know we are delayed. We want to ask you some extra patience: If we have not released anything yet is because we want to present something stable and powerful. Those of you who have been testing the private server have reported dozens of bugs, especially related to the lack of feedback that the system gives to the user. This feedback has pushed us to decide to wait a few more days for the first release. We’re working hard on that , and we’ll continue non-stop until we’re done.
The first public beta will be out in a few days. Please do understand us. We’re creating something big , for everybody, and made from scratch. After 6 months working on 2.0, we have decided to wait to have it really ready than releasing it earlier. It will be free and Open Source. And we’re the first ones to wish to release it.
The public presentations in Barcelona, Madrid (Spain), United States, Germany and France will be announced soon.
UPDATE: We’ve done the first update on the beta server.
The update enabled new features:
- Ability to create work groups
- Spreedsheets has been updated with new functions from the toolbar
- Documents is now linked to the FSI and opens and saves in its own format, which can have bundled images and media.
- Its possible to share files from eyeFiles with other users. To do it: add an user from People and wait him/her to accept you. Share the files you want with those users. They can double click your contact from People and eyeFiles will open with the title “Files shared from X” where X is the user.
Before starting to talk about eyeos 2.0 we must take a minute to thank the whole eyeos community for the enormous support received during the last weeks of December. The eyeos official communities have been created successfully in 5 continents and are already working hard, and people from all around the world is waiting for eyeos 2.0. And we’re doing our best to make the 2.0 release the best release of eyeos ever.
eyeOS 2.0 release dates and information
We’re opening today a private test site thought for everybody willing to help on the testing process for eyeOS 2.0. This private site will be opened to the official communities leaders today, and to everybody in the eyeos community on monday. The test server will have all debugging features enabled and we’ll be activating/deactivating different modules during the next week. Please do not expect to see the final version since during the first testing week we’ll be activating and deactivating different applications to focus the testing efforts on different parts of the system.
Everybody who wants to help on this process, please send a mail to Jordi Collell (jordi.collell@eyeos.org). We will be sending the invitations during the next week, and everybody testing will be invited to a mailing list to coordinate the testing efforts.
The first general available, open source release of eyeos 2.0 will be on January 11th, after all modules will have been activated on the test server and the important bugs found have been fixed. From January 11th to January 18th we’ll open a public preview server and everybody will be able to test, play online and/or download and install the eyeOS 2.0 release candidate. We’ll work hard during that week to fix everything detected during those days.
Finally, the final release (eyeOS 2.0.0 final) will be done in January 18th, and eyeos 2.0 will be officially presented in Barcelona (January 19th), Madrid (January 21st-25th, still to determinate) and somewhere in the US on February. All community leaders will be invited to organize and coordinate events on their countries and territories around eyeos 2.0 presentations.
But I was expecting to see eyeos 2.0 today…
We know the best would be to release 2.0 final today, but we have choosen to have a 2-week period (1 week of private controled testing and 1 week of public testing) because eyeos 2.0 has been rewritten from scratch, and a lot of test will be needed. The main purpose is to release a great 2.0, and this is what we all are working for.
But as we understand that some people not interested in testing would like to see eyeos 2.0 working, we’ve prepared a video of eyeos 2.0 working. Note that with the final release there will be another video showing everything about 2.0 (including collaboration in real time in eyeDocs, the mail client, calendar and more.). Enjoy it!
