BoonEx and Unity members shaping the Future together

Yesterday BoonEx (Andrew) and I made an agreement which we both feel will end a lot of the bad karma here at Unity and start a new begining. Instead of fighting each other, the time has come to work together in Unity to Improve and shape the future, and work as a team together to improve the one thing that brings us all together, Dolphin.

For my part of the agreement, i have agreed to never use swear words again on Boonex.com (i agree to forfit one of the 38 free licenses i was given, for each swear word i use, thats a potential $30,020 worth i could loose) Although loosing 30k is a good incentive for me, it is not the incentive that would stop me from using terms like "F you, or go F yourself". my incentive is the BoonEx side of our agreement.

BoonEx Have agreed to allow and promote 10 members to Pundit status, and give these members access to the proposed release version of any upgrade/new version release, 48 hours before the planned release day. these members will then download and install and test the new release and report back any bugs found, so that BoonEx can quickly fix them before the release day.

BoonEx have also agreed to review a list of 10 names i put forward to form this core group. Now before anyone starts to think i am going to use this to build myself a personal power group, you can put that thought out of your mind here and now. One of the members i will put on the list of 10 is MichelSwiss (wow you 2 guys hate each others guts i hear you say) i am not narrow minded or short sighted to see and know who has the most to offer this core group. and i will put my differences aside, for the better of the group and Unity as a whole.

I do not intend to list 10 Developers, (BoonEx has 10 of them already and look whats happend? they forgot the end users because they are burried to much in their work on the code) I intend to choose 10 people that i know that work with Dolphin every day, and know the History of Dolphin and its needs, and who know what they are doing. The list will contain people both from Here (Boonex.com and Expertzzz.com)

The people will really only have one thing in common, and thats working with Dolphin. i'll name a few now but i'll post a full list later and my reasons.

MichelSwiss (see above)

jtadeo has taken Dolphin to levels no other person has managed to do yet. he knows Dolphin inside out, yes he is a developer and programmer, he is also the nicest guy you could ever meet, and is well respected and liked by everyone.

DosDawg owns Terabyte-hosting, the really only choice for Dolphin hosting, he works on dolphin every day, he has a vast amount of experience and has SuPHP servers and RMS servers and can give sound advice and input with issues on the RMS, auto installer for cpanel and Dolphin its self.

mrpowless knows Dolphin and has done some video tutorials to help members, posts mostly on the forums but is well respected and liked

okweb works with code and has posted a lot of free code to help members improve their sites, knows Dolphin and is also well liked

mscott has posted security advice to help people protect their sites, knows Dolphin posts more on Expertzzz than here, is old school.

houstonlively has posted some great ideas and expressed a lot of his thoughts and although is a fairly new member, he has demonstrated he knows what Dolphin needs.

gameutopia is a long standing member that has made a lot of posts to help others and has also developed some apps for Dolphin.

Kosmic She is a smart lady that posts help and advice in the forums and is also well liked, she knows Dolphin and its Code and has offered her skills to help others here.

Above are just a few of the people i think would be a benefit to the core group, there are others i feel would be a great addition, but who have left or no longer post here, if they could be enticed back then it would be great, i will post a full list later.

i envision the core group to not only be testers and repsent the whole of the Unity membership, but i hope they will hold talks and present BoonEx with idea's and advice and report bugs.

I hope today is the start of something where we can all put aside our differences and work in Unity to build a better relationship between the members and BoonEx and move forward and build for the future.